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 De Rosario Mar...
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...
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Rich Alderson
alderson+quenya@...
Feb 9, 2006 12:31 am
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...
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Thorsten Renk
trenk@...
Feb 9, 2006 1:54 pm
... 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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 10, 2006 2:33 pm
I would like to draw attention to the announcement of an important new work by Thorsten Renk on the "Q(u)enya Past Tense": ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 10, 2006 3:09 pm
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...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Feb 10, 2006 4:31 pm
With the announcement of Måns Björkman's "Valmaric Eldamar" font: <http://at.mansbjorkman.net/valmariceldamar.htm> I have made the following changes in the...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Feb 12, 2006 3:38 am
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,...
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Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Feb 12, 2006 11:03 pm
... 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...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 14, 2006 12:17 pm
... 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...
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davidkiks
Feb 17, 2006 10:36 pm
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...
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Helios De Rosario Mar...
helios_drm
Feb 21, 2006 12:06 am
There are a couple of points which I find interesting to add to Thorsten Renk's "The Q(u)enya Past Tense" at: ...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Feb 21, 2006 1:16 pm
... 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...
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hisweloke
Mar 1, 2006 12:30 am
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_...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Mar 4, 2006 1:26 pm
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...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Mar 6, 2006 2:08 pm
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 ...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 6, 2006 11:50 pm
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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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 7, 2006 12:25 am
... That should be Helios De Rosario Martinez, of course. (Sorry, Helios!)...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 9, 2006 1:05 pm
Marquette University Press have announced the publication of _The Lord of the Rings 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder_, sc., the...
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Ales Bican
Ales_Bican
Mar 11, 2006 2:10 pm
Some thoughts on the Quenya pronominal endings for "they", 3rd person plural: Commenting on the form _tiruvantes_ "they will guard it", Tolkien indicates that...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Mar 13, 2006 1:51 am
... _-nte_ could be analysed similarly to _*lte_, namely as containing a plural marker _n_ (as seen in case endings: loc. pl. _-sse-n_, gen. pl. _o-n_) and...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Mar 13, 2006 12:39 pm
Diego Segui has very kindly provided his index of _Vinyar Tengwar_ for publication on the ELF website, in both English ...
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DiegoSeguí
tirachinas
Mar 25, 2006 1:38 pm
Hello, According to Ake Bertenstam's 'Chronological Bibliography of the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien': http://www.forodrim.org/arda/tbchron.html an earlier...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Mar 27, 2006 12:59 pm
... It does not match closely. The old version is much shorter, six four-line stanzas. What is similar is the described finery: "gossamer shot with gold", and...
