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...
Thorsten Renk
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Apr 12, 2005 2:53 am
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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...
... In any case, _Moria_ seems to require a Sindarin _mor-_. [Also _Morannon_, and no doubt other forms. CFH] Suilad, Beregond [I feel that I should interject...
Another interesting datum pertaining to lenition or lack thereof after S./N. _morn_ in compounds occurs in Tolkien's early "Noldorin Word-list", published in ...
Recent discussions on this list involving S. _born_ 'hot, red' (L:426-27) set me to wondering if this form had any discernible cognates in the published...
... I just want to point out that English _pyre_ is not a cognate of Greek _pur_ but a borrowing of same. The actual English cognate is, of course, _fire_! ...
Rich Alderson
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Aug 7, 2005 5:11 pm
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... On the note of etymological punning, there is not only the connection with IE *_peHur_/peuHr_ 'fire' (as substance) but also the Germanic word family of...
On the p. 54 of the _Early Qenya Grammar_ (in PE14) we read: "pronouns may also add the adverbial case endings: in this case all are treated as singulars...
"The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion" by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull should be published on : 10/25/2005. It will be a welcome volume ! ...
Recently on Elfling, an attempt by one "Evenstar" to translate some French proverbs into neo-Quenya (post #32037) led to a discussion of the Qenya word _meoi_...
Please forgive this off-topic post, but I want to ask list members to please consider making a donation to the American Red Cross to aid victims of Hurricane...
In "The Quenta" (abbreviated as "Q"), Tolkien's 1930 version of his mythology, the great river of East Beleriand (later called the _Gelion_) bore for a time...
... Leaving aside the question whether rivers (or trees, v.i.) were classed as 'things' in Elvish, _flind_ can go back e.g. to _*sp(i)lindi_, an adjectival...
... I would be more inclined to reconstruct the full primitive form of N. _flind, flinn_ as *_sp(i)linde_, with short _-e_. I can't find any examples in the...
... Edouard, I'm sorry not to have seen this message and replied to it sooner. Christina and I also had not seen the description on Houghton Mifflin's site,...
In Lambengolmor post #799 I mentioned the "forgotten words" of Elvish, attested forms that are generally "excluded from the idiosyncratic canons of the...
Helge Fauskanger, in his Quenya-English wordlist, includes the following two entries: _vëa_ (1) "adult, manly, vigorous" (WEG) _vëa_ (2) "sea" (MC:213, 214,...
