... <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,...
Patrick Wynne mentioned in message #821 of this list the name _Vëantur_, besides _Vëandur_, as occurrences of Quenya _vea_ 'sea' in late writings. Another...
Hello, I have been invited to the SILF, which this year is hosted by the University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/romaanisetkielet/congres/index_eng.htm...
"Patrick H. Wynne" <pwynne@...> wrote, regarding the chart ... Although _Isilme_ has an appropriate meaning, don't you think it could have a link with...
... I should also have noted that a clear example of this feminine agentive _-me_ appears in the _Etymologies_ s.v. SER- 'love, be fond of (of liking,...
Not only do we have _Isilme_ — as a female name I would translate it in English 'Moonshine', sounds more feminine to me than just 'Moonlight' ;-) — but...
