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...
In my post (message #820) on the name _Axantur_ I wrote that this name apparently consists of Q. _axan_ 'law, rule, commandment' ... Edouard Kloczko mentioned...
A question remains : were _Axantur_ *'Theologian', and _Nolondil_ *'Philosopher' Númenorian Proper Names only or also lexemes of Quenya? I don't remember...
In Chapter IV "The Calendars" in _The Peoples of Middle-earth_, Christopher Tolkien presents the early workings (c. 1949–50) for Appendix D of _The Lord of...
In the "New Era" calendar of c. 1949-50 (XII:133-136), the 12 months of the year are divided into five seasons -- Spring, Autumn, and Stirring have two months...
Both the _Vinyar Tengwar_ and _Parma Eldalamberon_ errata lists have been updated: http://www.elvish.org/errata/ I'd like to thank Diego Seguí for reporting...
I would like to draw everyone's attention to a significant new contribution to the linguistic and comparative study of the phenomenon of vowel affection in...
_The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ Vol. 4 is now available Volume 4 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issue 31–40, and is available for order on the...
I have discovered a font-related problem in the first version of the _CVT_ vol. 4 (_not_ affecting vol. 5a). I have a work-around, and will release the...
The corrected version is now available for order. Those of you who ordered the first version: although the window to do so seems VERY tight indeed, it might be...
If canceling your order (and then making a new order) is not an option, then on further reflection I would like to ask those of you who ordered a copy of the...
_The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ Vol. 3 is now available Volume 3 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issue 21–30, and is available for order on the...
_The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ Vol. 2 is now available Volume 2 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issue 11–20, and is available for order on the...
In their excellent book _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_, Wayne G.Hammond and Christina Scull write: "haywards -- The term _hayward_ originally...
See Tolkien's _Guide to the Names_, Persons, _Hayward_: "The word is derived from _hay_ 'fence' (_not_ 'grass') + _ward_ 'guard'." (TC:168) - Beregond...
Recall also "Haysend" - where too "hay"="hedge". Lukas...
Luká Novák
lukas.novak@...
Nov 6, 2005 12:49 pm
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... should have pointed to Tolkien's own gloss in the "Nomenclature", as indeed we do in our gloss for "Hob Hayward" (LR p. 998, our p. 655). Our note on p. 35...
... The text of the "Guide" is also printed in the _Reader's Companion_ itself. [The page reference in Beregond's post was added by your humble moderator, who...
... No, I don't think so. Too many details have passed by now to be sure, but I think that we meant to point to the mention of the Hay Gate. If we had meant...
It is universally recognised, by Tolkien himself to begin with (through Lowdham's pen), that the triconsonantal structure of Adûnaic bases was inspired by...
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