... 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...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Mar 4, 2005 12:59 am
... Not true of many documents, which have been similarly normalised in editing. Where the original document is preserved, we have authorial manuscripts. [I...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Mar 3, 2005 1:19 am
... The preceding reminds me strongly of the normalised texts of Old Germanic languages, levelling out irregularities and manuscript varieties. The Parable of...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Mar 2, 2005 4:53 am
_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,...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 16, 2005 7:16 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 16, 2005 3:19 am
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 14, 2005 4:30 am
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 5, 2005 2:22 pm
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_...
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Edouard Kloczko
laurifindil
Jan 14, 2005 10:33 pm
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...
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lambengolmor@yahoogro...
odysseus1479
Jan 14, 2005 6:18 pm
[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 ...
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Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
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 ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jan 13, 2005 3:00 pm
The word _loikolķkuma_ 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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"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Jan 8, 2005 8:26 pm
... 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" ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jan 7, 2005 8:50 pm
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestiė_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 29, 2004 3:26 pm
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...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
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...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
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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galadhorn
Dec 14, 2004 12:31 pm
Reading "The Silmarillion" you must have seen the curious form of Elu Thingol's (or Elu-thingol's) name: Elwė _Singollo_. Have you ever tried to guess from...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Dec 4, 2004 8:18 pm
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...
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elchithui
Dec 4, 2004 2:17 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 3, 2004 12:57 am
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Nov 27, 2004 12:32 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 27, 2004 2:32 am
Sindarin examples of the non-mutation of the mutable initial consonant of objects of prepositions include: _o menel_ 'from heaven' (LR:231, 712) _o...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 25, 2004 11:18 am
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...
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DiegoSeguķ
tirachinas
Nov 24, 2004 5:09 pm
In Lambengolmor message #753: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/753 Sébastien Bertho comments on the use of characters for _ę_ (ae) and __...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 21, 2004 10:45 pm
A card signed and inscribed in Quenya by Tolkien was recently auctioned on eBay. You can view this item at: ...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Nov 14, 2004 8:35 pm
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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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Nov 13, 2004 4:36 am
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...
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lambendil
Nov 13, 2004 4:18 am
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 Hśrin". On p. 61, under note 9, it is said "When...
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Arden R. Smith
erilaz7
Oct 29, 2004 3:53 am
... 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...
