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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 28, 2005 9:55 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 30, 2005 2:39 am
_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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 4, 2005 11:10 pm
_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...
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F. Strÿfffff6m
frestro
Nov 5, 2005 2:46 pm
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...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Nov 5, 2005 3:57 pm
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...
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Wayne G. Hammond
whammondwayne
Nov 6, 2005 2:11 pm
... 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...
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F. Strÿfffff6m
frestro
Nov 6, 2005 2:47 pm
... 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...
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Wayne G. Hammond
whammondwayne
Nov 6, 2005 4:46 pm
... 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...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Nov 11, 2005 1:46 pm
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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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Nov 12, 2005 11:56 pm
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...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Nov 13, 2005 1:23 pm
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'....
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F. Strÿfffff6m
frestro
Nov 14, 2005 1:44 am
... 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...
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F. Ström
frestro
Nov 14, 2005 1:45 am
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 ...
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Arden R. Smith
erilaz7
Nov 14, 2005 12:45 pm
... 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_...
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F. Ström
frestro
Nov 14, 2005 12:53 pm
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Nov 15, 2005 12:45 am
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...
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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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ejk@...
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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ejk@...
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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ejk@...
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...
