I am pleased to announce that _Vinyar Tengwar_ 47 will be published later this month. _VT_ 47 presents the first half of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_...
Due to the vastly increased demands of time required for subscription and back-issue-order fulfillment as readership has grown past 500; and to the reality of...
I am pleased to announce the availability of the first volume in _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_, vol. 5a, collecting issues 40 through 46 (@ $13.99 plus...
On further reflection, I've decided to alter the distribution of issues among the projected 5 volumes of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_. The final version of...
_A Gateway to Sindarin_: a grammar of an Elvish language from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings / David Salo. - Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press,...
... The preceding reminds me strongly of the normalised texts of Old Germanic languages, levelling out irregularities and manuscript varieties. The Parable of...
... Not true of many documents, which have been similarly normalised in editing. Where the original document is preserved, we have authorial manuscripts. [I...
... Yesterday, I received VT 47 and enjoyed Patrick Wynne's analysis of Tolkien's manuscripts. In the editorial note 58, he cites Tolkien's note "Solution of...
Hello, An error in VT46 p 27, last line. The roots "WAWA-, WAWA-" should read "WAWA-, WAIWA-". No? elfiquement vôtre, Edouard Kloczko PS: Yello for VT47! Hope...
Thank you for VT 47. Just two little comments: There is a typo, I think, on page 37, note 55 where the Sanskrit should read: _daks.inâ diç-_ (or _dik_...
VT47 is indeed a fruitful and very welcome source of information about Quenya vocabulary and grammar, and about the development of the Eldarin languages. Among...
If you want to attend the the First International Conference on Tolkien's Invented Languages in Stockholm this August, it is time to send in your registration...
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
One statement of fact, and one or two of principle will have to suffice as answer on this longish contribution. ... In the case of ancient texts, indeed we...
... Salo's statement as quoted by Carl, "Tolkien's handwritten capital _C_ and capital _G_ are very similar", must indeed be understood as a fact established...
David Salo: _A Gateway to Sindarin_ a discussion by Thorsten Renk I. General remarks Now David Salo, probably most famous for the creation of the Elvish ...
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Thorsten Renk sent his most welcome and knowledgeable discussion of 'A Gateway to Sindarin' by David Salo. Regarding your review, I've got two questions: 1)...
On p. 46 of the EQG Tolkien present the long and short syllable of a sentence but he gives only some of the syllabic divisions, not all. I wonder who would...
... Please let me first say that I do not object to the use of technical language as such -- as long as it is done for precision and with proper consideration...
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Errata for VT 45/46: I. On Page 13 in VT 46 is mentioned the stem _SIR-_: "[for:] Q, ON _sire_ [read:] Q, ON _sîre_" (here _î_ = an _i_ with macron in the...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 13 ... The ALPHABET OF RÚMIL and EARLY NOLDORIN FRAGMENTS by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... This issue has two sections of writings by J. R. R....
... <snip> ... I will with pleasure. And if I may ask for some help. I have been looking for months for a copy of "Scholarship & Fantasy", Proceedings of the...
While doing some research in _The Treason of Isengard_ recently I came across the Noldorin form _Mornvenniath_, a name of the Black Mountains appearing in a...
... Good catch. _Mornvenniath_ is all the more interesting because it is one of the few attestations of the element _morn_ < _*mornâ_ in compounds (with the...
... Letter 347, paragraph 7: "In S. initial _g_ was retained in composition, where a contact _n_ + _g_ occurred. So _born_ 'hot, red' + _gil_ to _borñgil_;...
... At the end of this same letter (written in 1972), Tolkien provides another example of retention of initial D in composition when a contact N + D occurs. He...
Anders Stenström pointed out that Tolkien wrote in ... So, voiced stops or, at least, _g_ and _d_ were retained in such position. Yet this statement by...
... It appears that in Tolkien's later conception of Sindarin, _all three_ initial voiced stops -- B as well as D and G -- were retained in composition when...
... Very well. Yet discrepancies relative to _morn-_/ morna-_ remain. As far as I can see, the only exceptions to 'soft mutation' after _mor-_ (whatever its...
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