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...
In Lambengolmor message #753: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/753 Sébastien Bertho comments on the use of characters for _æ_ (ae) and _œ_...
Today I received my copy of David Salo's new book, _A Gateway to Sindarin_ (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004). While I intend to offer a...
... If we look at lenition (or initial consonant mutation) as a historical process (which, of course, it is), the following can, very briefly, be said: 1) It's...
As a follow-up to the discussion of the motivation of Initial Consonant Mutation, both generally and in the specific cases of _vi Menel_ and _bo Ceven_, note...
... I think I might have found one more proof confirming your theory. We have _giliath_ vs. _Remmirath_ in LR 1:3, translated as 'Netted Stars' but literally...
Earlier this week I received my copy of David Salo's long- awaited tome "A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's _Lord of...
Reading "The Silmarillion" you must have seen the curious form of Elu Thingol's (or Elu-thingol's) name: Elwë _Singollo_. Have you ever tried to guess from...
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Andreas Johansson
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Dec 14, 2004 1:54 pm
... [snip] It could also simply be a contraction of _Sindicollo_; indeed, this explanation has been advanced on Elfling. But seeing it as a half-Quenyaization...
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Andreas Johansson
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Dec 14, 2004 11:20 pm
... I don't think anyone is saying that _Sindicollo_>_Singollo_ was a *regular* development. It does not seem like Quenya compounds normally underwent such...
Please forgive this off-topic post, but I wanted to let every US member know that Amazon.com has a page set up by which you can very easily make a donation to...
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
... It was a pleasure to read this article. At one point it states: "_+laith_, does not occur in any other name [than _Limlaith_], and its meaning is unknown" ...
The word _loikolíkuma_ occurs, to my knowledge, only once in the published corpus of J.R.R. Tolkien's writings [MC:222, 223]. It figures in a poem named 'The...
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Rich Alderson
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Jan 13, 2005 11:01 pm
... I would just like to point out that the word does appear in Modern English in the old compound _lychgate_ (also _lichgate_), a covered section of the gate ...
[This is drifting off-topic. Keep any further discussion of this form related to Tolkien's own usage and inventions, please. Discussion of the development of ...
Two questions regarding the "Early Qenya Grammar" in _Parma Eldalamberon_ 14: 1) On p. 57 the compound tense _tuluvande_ is translated in English as 'is going...
