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>,...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
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...
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....
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...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Jan 7, 2006 12:56 pm
878
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....
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 2, 2006 1:51 pm
879
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_...
... 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...
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...
... 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...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 8, 2006 6:58 pm
883
... 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...
In response to a message from "Thorsten Renk" <trenk@...> on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:41:28 -0500, Patrick Wynne wrote ... I would like to amplify on that...
Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Feb 9, 2006 12:31 am
885
... It was not my intention to imply that _karin_ must necessarily have only one past tense. However, it strikes me as significant that * In the QL, verbs...
Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 9, 2006 1:54 pm
886
I would like to draw attention to the announcement of an important new work by Thorsten Renk on the "Q(u)enya Past Tense": ...
If you subscribe to VT and live in Canada or (from the US perspective) overseas in a country whose name in English is Norway or alphabetically later, then...
With the announcement of Måns Björkman's "Valmaric Eldamar" font: <http://at.mansbjorkman.net/valmariceldamar.htm> I have made the following changes in the...
In recent messages the verb form _karin_ 'I make, build' from the _Etymologies_ s.v. the verbal root KAR- 'make, do' (V:362), was incidentally cited,...
... The most common form for citation, as far as Western European languages are concerned, is surely the infinitive, regardless of how marked it is compared to...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 12, 2006 11:03 pm
891
... One might add that a formation is used that (generally) conveys the best idea of the basic nature of the verb, the most transparent. That's not necessarily...
Hello, It seems to me that in VT48 p. 18, there's an error in the editorial note n. 15 : "adj. _exa_ 'other' and noun _exe_ 'the other' (VT42:40 n. 65)" The...
... That's certainly a strong point. Just to clarify, there are two assumptions that led me to this reconstruction: 1) The infixed past tense forms derive from...
Greetings, I am slightly puzzled by the statement in VT48:32, note 19: "In both of the Sindarin forms, _duinen_ and _dannen_, the original C.E. suffix _-mê_...
I have a question concerning the form _hlonite_: In VT48:29, Patrick Wynne cites the form _hlonite_ "phonetic" from a Tolkien manuscript. He notes that this...
It is perhaps worth noting that S. *_brui_ 'loud' (as in _Bruinen_ 'Loudwater') bears a striking resemblance to the Esperanto verb _brui_ 'make a noise' (in ...
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: "Intensifying Prefixes...
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