... I disagree with Thomas's and Sébastien's characterization of _enge_ as an "irregular" past tense. We know from the portion of Appendix D to "Quendi and...
... re statements by me and by Sébastien Bertho in Elfling messages #30283 and #30284, respectively, that _enge_, ... I stand corrected in my opinion, the...
... Of course, from these statements it appears that the pa.t. _enge_ of _ea_ is regular, as is pa.t. _tenge_ for _tea_, _for this class of verb_. But two...
First, if there is anyone who is interested in getting _Parma Eldalamberon_ back issues 6, 7 and 8, but does not have easy access to US funds to pay for these,...
I have made some revisions to my _Tengwestie_ article, "The Past-Tense Verb in the Noldorin of the _Etymologies_", incorporating Helge Fauskanger's recent...
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I have another corrigendum to _The Etymologies_, one that I suspected long before I had access to photocopies of the manuscript, but which I failed to mention...
Is the NENG- entry (VT46:3 s.v. NENG-WI-) composed of the root only or has it all the Q. and N. words as well? [It is essentially the same, lacking only the...
... I think we're seeing here two different kinds of formation: 1. Causative (or in this case factitive), that is _*ninqui_ + tâ_ 'make white, whiten' (for...
... (<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/737>), ... It seems possible. Presumably Edouard is referring to the N- prefix cited in the A&C...
If _ninqitá-_ 'whiten' has a causative suffix, which seems to be the case, why do we have _tulta-_ 'send for, fetch, summon' (< *_tultâ-_ 'make come' < TUL-...
In the manuscript version of the "Early Qenya Grammar" (PE15:56) _ha-matsir_ is translated 'it is soiled' but the verb _mat-_ = 'to eat' op cit.:57), and...
'PE14:56 erratum: "it is soiled" >> "it is eaten"' 'In the manuscript version of the "Early Qenya Grammar"; (PE15:56)...' The subject heading and the text cite...
In the entry NDAN of the Etymologies (V:375) Tolkien gives Noldorin names for the Green-elves or Danas : _Dân_ pl. _Dein_, _Daðrin_. The latter looks very...
... PARMA ELDALAMBERON 15 ... SÍ QENTE FEANOR and Other Elvish Writings by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... The forthcoming issue is a collection of early writings by J....
... Which would make it a plural in _-in_. Cf. e.g. PE13:123 or _Conin en Annûn_ in LR:932, perhaps. Still, the 'intrusive' _r_ is remarkable. Maybe it's a...
On page 64 of PE 14, l. 11, we read that "_<dh>_ > _b_, _m_" as root- modification (where <dh> represents an edh in the text). Should that not be "_<bh>_ >...
As a follow-up to my earlier message I want to let Lambengolmor subscribers know that Parma Eldalamberon No. 15 came back from the printer as expected this...
Meldor lambengolmor, The two latest errata for Parma Eldalamberon have been added to the published list on elvish.org . Keep those magnifying glasses busy! ...
Greetings, In Parma Eldalamberon #15, page 121, we read for the <sh> rune in the right column: "not used in _Hobbit_, _Sh_ in Farrer" but in the Farrer...
(Preliminary note : I use the sign # to mark elements attested only inflected or compounded.) _Sharbhund_ appears in the _Narn i [Ch]în Húrin_ (UT:98) as the...
... Strengthening this particular note of Bertrand's, I'd like to comment that the deduced word *_mazarb_ probably functions according to Bertrand's conception...
... I post this message here since its content seems to be relevant to the goals of the list. Sébastien Bertho {(Dr.) Arden Smith replies: "Quite right. The...
My post is primarily concerned with ambiguities caused by hyphens occuring in some Elvish words in the A&C (VT45 & VT46), and also in the published text of the...
... It is also written as a mirrored s-rune in my analysis of the Farrer postcard, which I had right in front of me when I assembled the table that appears in...
I'd like to mention what seems to be a typo in PE15, in the "Index of Names for the Lay of the Children of Húrin". On p. 61, under note 9, it is said "When...
In this post I would like to discuss the fact that in Sindarin, some stems seem to be extended by an additional _i_ when a suffix is added. We could call it...
In the Etymologies, root TIW (V:394), we have the curious ON form _tuio-_ "swell, grow fat". I wondered if this was not an error for _*tuia-_ according to the...
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