_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
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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...
In an early draft of the chapter "Farewell to Lórien" presented in "The Treason of Isengard", Keleborn -- describing the lands south of Lórien through which...
I wonder whether the element _úvan-_ 'noman' or 'nomen' could be formed of the negative prefix _ú-_ plus a lenited form of the personal pronoun _man_ 'who'....
... Further to the difficulties mentioned by Patrick, I would add that a name meaning literally *'monsterfolk' seems a bit strange. As far as I know the region...
On p. 580 in _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_, Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull writes: "_athelas_ in the noble tongue [...] In the following ...
... Strictly speaking, that's true. It's really just an extrapolation, based on the gloss of _athelas_ as 'kingsfoil' and the transparent meaning of _aranion_...
Well folks, here we go again. I have discovered a printing problem in the first version of the _CVT_ vol. 2 (obvious if you look at the top of p. 5 of issue...
At 05:19 AM 11/13/05, Patrick Wynne annotated Helios De Rosario ... A word for "no one" formed with the elements for "not" and "who?" is found in Greek and...
Jerome Colburn
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Nov 17, 2005 2:11 pm
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... What about the "Early Qenya Grammar" indefinite article suffix _-ma_ 'a, some, certain' ? This is also possibly etymologically connected with the particle...
Slaves lived in the South of Mordor, the Nurn. Elessar Telcontar freed them and gave them land around Lake Núrnen (LOTR Book 6, Ch. V "The Steward and the...
... All of these Elvish words, including the late Quenya verb _nurru-_, have a short _u_; the discrepancy between the name of the sea _Nûrnen/Núrnen_ and the...
... In the copies of the first edition on our shelves, the name is printed in the text _Núrnen_, with an acute accent, not with a circumflex. It has no accent...
... Sorry about the ref. but I was referring to _Nûrnen_ as printed in the chapter "The Black Gate is Closed", first edition, p. 244 (my copy 11th printing). ...
... Ah, yes, there it had a circumflex. This carried over from the first edition into the first printing of the second edition (1966), but was changed to an...
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: "Light and Tree: A...
The _Etymologies_ feature several sets of Noldorin words for the points of the compass, based on the roots PHOR - KHYAR - RÔ- NDÛ. We already find the later...
Reading through Wayne Hammond and Christina Scull's fabulous new book _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_ I came across the translation of...
In _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_ by Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull, on p. 536 we find the newly revealed unpublished note from Tolkien's...
As has already been demonstrated, this new work, apart from being an indispensable new resource for Tolkien scholars in general and scholars of _LotR_, is also...
... Houghton Mifflin have issued this also in one-volume hardcover, and HarperCollins have it in three volumes, hardcover and paperback. The 2005 printing has...
RC:334 provides us with Tolkien's explanation of the meaning of _Emyn Muil_. According to Tolkien's "Index" it is 'the drear hills'. I always wondered why the...
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