... <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...
800
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...
801
"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_;...
802
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...
803
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...
804
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...
805
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...
806
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...
807
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 4, 2005 1:15 pm
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 ...
808
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 6, 2005 2:24 pm
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...
809
Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Aug 7, 2005 5:11 pm
... 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_! ...
810
David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Aug 9, 2005 11:52 am
... 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...
811
laurifindil
Aug 18, 2005 12:32 am
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...
812
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 18, 2005 1:35 pm
Hans Georg Lundahl recently submitted the following link to this list without comment, save for the queried subject header "slightly off topic?": ...
813
laurifindil
Aug 26, 2005 10:07 pm
"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 ! ...
814
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Aug 27, 2005 3:53 pm
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_...
815
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Aug 31, 2005 12:45 am
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...
816
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Sep 4, 2005 12:24 pm
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...
817
David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Sep 5, 2005 3:07 am
... 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...
818
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Sep 5, 2005 1:40 pm
... 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...
819
whammondwayne
Sep 16, 2005 12:09 pm
... 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,...
820
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Sep 16, 2005 5:20 pm
In Lambengolmor post #799 I mentioned the "forgotten words" of Elvish, attested forms that are generally "excluded from the idiosyncratic canons of the...
821
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Sep 17, 2005 6:36 pm
Helge Fauskanger, in his Quenya-English wordlist, includes the following two entries: _vëa_ (1) "adult, manly, vigorous" (WEG) _vëa_ (2) "sea" (MC:213, 214,...
822
Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Sep 20, 2005 12:01 pm
Patrick Wynne mentioned in message #821 of this list the name _Vëantur_, besides _Vëandur_, as occurrences of Quenya _vea_ 'sea' in late writings. Another...
823
laurifindil
Sep 24, 2005 7:27 pm
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...
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Giraudeau David
davidkiks
Oct 5, 2005 1:09 pm
"Patrick H. Wynne" <pwynne@...> wrote, regarding the chart ... Although _Isilme_ has an appropriate meaning, don't you think it could have a link with...
825
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Oct 5, 2005 6:15 pm
... 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,...
826
ejk@...
laurifindil
Oct 6, 2005 12:21 pm
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...
827
Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Oct 6, 2005 1:22 pm
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...
