It is said that _orthanc_ has two major meanings (in two different tounges): in "elvish" (Sindarin) "stony heart, [?tormented] Hills" (VIII:35), "Stone Fangs"...
Greetings, In Parma Eldalamberon #15, page 121, we read for the <sh> rune in the right column: "not used in _Hobbit_, _Sh_ in Farrer" but in the Farrer...
In _The Hobbit_ (p. 236 and footnote) we find mentioning of an Orc chieftain by the name of _Bolg_ son of _Azog_. He is an Orc of the Misty Mountains, about...
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...
Some thoughts on the Quenya pronominal endings for "they", 3rd person plural: Commenting on the form _tiruvantes_ "they will guard it", Tolkien indicates that...
Marquette University Press have announced the publication of _The Lord of the Rings 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder_, sc., the...
I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new article in _Tengwestië_, the online journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship: "Intensifying Prefixes...
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 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...
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_...
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...
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...
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,...
With the announcement of Måns Björkman's "Valmaric Eldamar" font: <http://at.mansbjorkman.net/valmariceldamar.htm> I have made the following changes in the...
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...
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_...
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...
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>,...
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...
