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 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 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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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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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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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
gentlebeldin
Mar 5, 2005 8:58 pm
... 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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ejk@...
laurifindil
Mar 5, 2005 9:08 pm
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 6, 2005 2:34 pm
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_...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Mar 9, 2005 2:22 pm
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...
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Bill Welden
williamwelden
Mar 15, 2005 10:44 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 18, 2005 8:15 pm
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
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Hans Georg Lundahl
hglundahl
Mar 19, 2005 3:14 am
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...
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Hans
gentlebeldin
Mar 19, 2005 2:45 pm
... 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...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Mar 31, 2005 10:36 am
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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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Apr 8, 2005 12:20 pm
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)...
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laurifindil
Apr 8, 2005 12:37 pm
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...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Apr 12, 2005 2:53 am
... 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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varavilindo
Apr 17, 2005 12:23 pm
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...
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cgilson75
Apr 21, 2005 11:32 am
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....
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laurifindil
Jul 19, 2005 12:07 pm
I'm happy to announce that I have been invited to the SILF, which this year is hosted by the University of Helsinki ...
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laurifindil
Jul 23, 2005 5:19 pm
... <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...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 25, 2005 1:48 pm
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jul 25, 2005 5:35 pm
... 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...
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"Beregond. Ander...
j_beregond
Jul 26, 2005 12:06 am
... 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_;...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 26, 2005 2:53 pm
... 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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jul 28, 2005 12:21 pm
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...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 28, 2005 1:12 pm
... 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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jul 29, 2005 11:24 am
... 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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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Jul 30, 2005 1:20 am
... 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...
