"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 ! ...
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...
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...
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_...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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,...
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...
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
This posting is to announce: The First International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages (Informally "Omentielva Minya", or just "Omentielva") ...
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...
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_...
... 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...
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...
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 that _Vinyar Tengwar_ 47 will be published later this month. _VT_ 47 presents the first half of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_...
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...
The word _loikolíkuma_ 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...
Patrick Wynne and I are pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship...
Reading "The Silmarillion" you must have seen the curious form of Elu Thingol's (or Elu-thingol's) name: Elwë _Singollo_. Have you ever tried to guess from...
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...
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...
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...
