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...
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...
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_The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_ by Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull, on p. 536 we find the newly revealed unpublished note from Tolkien's...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
It is universally recognised, by Tolkien himself to begin with (through Lowdham's pen), that the triconsonantal structure of Adûnaic bases was inspired by...
_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. 4 is now available Volume 4 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issue 31–40, and is available for order on the...
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...
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...
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...
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 Lambengolmor post #799 I mentioned the "forgotten words" of Elvish, attested forms that are generally "excluded from the idiosyncratic canons of the...
Helge Fauskanger, in his Quenya-English wordlist, includes the following two entries: _vëa_ (1) "adult, manly, vigorous" (WEG) _vëa_ (2) "sea" (MC:213, 214,...
"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 ! ...
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...
Please forgive this off-topic post, but I wanted to let every US member know that Amazon.com has a page set up by which you can very easily make a donation to...
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_...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 13 ... The ALPHABET OF RÚMIL and EARLY NOLDORIN FRAGMENTS by J. R. R. TOLKIEN ... This issue has two sections of writings by J. R. R....
Errata for VT 45/46: I. On Page 13 in VT 46 is mentioned the stem _SIR-_: "[for:] Q, ON _sire_ [read:] Q, ON _sîre_" (here _î_ = an _i_ with macron in the...
