"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...
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Luká Novák
lukas.novak@...
Nov 6, 2005 12:49 pm
Recall also "Haysend" - where too "hay"="hedge". Lukas...
... 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...
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Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Nov 17, 2005 2:11 pm
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...
