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...
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cgilson75
Nov 20, 2005 1:24 pm
... What about the "Early Qenya Grammar" indefinite article suffix _-ma_ 'a, some, certain' ? This is also possibly etymologically connected with the particle...
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laurifindil
Nov 20, 2005 2:30 pm
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...
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laurifindil
Nov 20, 2005 6:20 pm
... 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...
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Wayne G. Hammond
whammondwayne
Nov 21, 2005 1:13 pm
... 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...
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laurifindil
Nov 21, 2005 6:36 pm
... 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). ...
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Wayne G. Hammond
whammondwayne
Nov 22, 2005 4:24 am
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 23, 2005 1:01 am
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...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Nov 24, 2005 3:35 pm
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...
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Peter
pengolodh_dk
Nov 26, 2005 1:34 pm
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...
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Galadhorn Elvellon
galadhorn
Nov 28, 2005 1:33 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 28, 2005 2:14 pm
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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Nov 29, 2005 12:51 pm
... For the convenience of readers living in Germany, the book is available via Amazon/Deutschland as well: ...
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Wayne G. Hammond
whammondwayne
Nov 29, 2005 12:52 pm
... Houghton Mifflin have issued this also in one-volume hardcover, and HarperCollins have it in three volumes, hardcover and paperback. The 2005 printing has...
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Galadhorn Elvellon
galadhorn
Nov 29, 2005 1:37 pm
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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Galadhorn Elvellon
galadhorn
Dec 1, 2005 1:05 pm
On the Elendili (Polish-language) mailing list, in the thread titled "Dictionary of the newly revealed words" <http://elendili.pl/viewtopic.php?p=30974#30974>,...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Dec 1, 2005 11:47 pm
... Just to clarify for the benefit of list members who do not yet have a copy of RC: Tolkien's index gives "_Paran_ smooth, shaven (often applied to hills...
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Atwe
percival64
Dec 1, 2005 11:48 pm
... Greetings, the correct link seems to be http://elendili.pl/viewtopic.php?t=1298. [How odd! I tried the link before I passed the message on to the list, and...
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Richard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Dec 2, 2005 1:00 pm
... In fact the link is: <http://elendili.pl/viewtopic.php?t=1300>. Thomas showed the link to the Polish version of this topic, but we have also its English...
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F. Strÿfffff6m
frestro
Dec 3, 2005 4:17 am
On his 'Addenda and Corrigenda' page to RC (http://bcn.net/~whammond/addenda/readers.html), Wayne Hammond writes: 'On the Lambengolmor forum,...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Dec 20, 2005 2:25 pm
Dear _Lambengolmor_ members, I would be pleased to receive your comments about an article on Rúmilian numerals, that the moderators have made available as a...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 20, 2005 2:44 pm
... Oops. The correct link is: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/files/rumiliannumerals.pdf>...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Dec 28, 2005 7:21 pm
This 36-page issue features the second part of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_ and Related Writings", itself a four-part collection of late texts (c....
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jan 7, 2006 12:56 pm
In 'The Fellowship of the Ring', LR book II, chapter 2 'The Council of Elrond' the Sindarin name of Tom Bombadil is given by Elrond: "Iarwain Ben-adar we...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 2, 2006 1:51 pm
I'd like to draw attention to two points in addition to Patrick Wynne's nice analysis of the form _kainen_ (VT48:12f). * The entry _kai-_ 'lie down', pa.t....
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F. Ström
frestro
Feb 4, 2006 10:26 pm
It occurred to me that the following index might be of use to others. It is simply a list of entries in Tolkien's "unfinished index" to _The Lord of the Rings_...
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helios_drm
Feb 6, 2006 1:31 am
... Of course, this applies to past tense in _-ne_, as Thorsten specified, since there are many examples of verbs in _-ta_ which drop it in the formation of...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 6, 2006 2:41 am
On page 32 of VT 48 Patrick Wynne wrote [on Tolkien's: "The old str. pa.t. is seen in OQ _umne_ future-past , _matumne_ "I was going to eat".] "If "str." in...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 8, 2006 6:58 pm
... I do not agree with the interpretation of _karne_ given by Patrick here. But first, the evidence which I know that counts for this interpretation is the...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 9, 2006 12:30 am
... Patrick, any particular reason why you wouldn't consider _**ub + n + ni_ > _*umbne_ >_umne_ a possibility as well ? It would *seem* to me, such a...
