In _The Return of the Shadow_ (HoME Vol. VI) we are introduced to Trotter, Tolkien's original conception of the character who would eventually become Aragorn....
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Jun 30, 2006 10:46 pm
... Actually, some steps were already taken half a year ago, here: http://middangeard.org.uk/aglardh/?q=node/49&from=0&comments_per_page=70 And here: ...
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Philipp Marquart
varavilindo
Jul 3, 2006 4:44 pm
While Arda still grew and flourished, and the two Lamps stood at the north and south sides of the world, there was an island in the midst of Arda. Tolkien, now...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 3, 2006 9:15 pm
Of the two Noldorin names of Trotter remaining to be discussed, neither actually means 'Trotter'. DU-FINNION In Chapter XI of the 'third phase' of composition...
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David Kiltz
tarhuntassas
Jul 4, 2006 4:57 pm
... _Ekkaia_ 'the Outer Ocean, the Encircling Sea' seems to show the same development. The Sindarin voiceless spirants also presuppose -TK > KK and -TP > PP....
920
Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Jul 10, 2006 5:14 am
Please excuse this off-topic message, but I would like list members to consider assisting in a cause to help the bereaved family of the late Tolkien...
921
Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Jul 11, 2006 11:25 am
... ...although that too looks like a compound in *_et-_ with intensive meaning (*"out far away" > "farthest away"). The commonly encountered formation that...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 11, 2006 10:56 pm
[In VT 17 (May 1991), Carl Hostetter and I began a column called "Words and Devices", the purpose of which was "to examine words and other linguistic features...
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Patrick H. Wynne
pa2rick
Jul 25, 2006 11:17 pm
In the manuscript version of J.R.R. Tolkien's _Early Qenya Grammar_ (EQG), composed around 1923 and published in _Parma Eldalamberon_ 14, there is a long Qenya...
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Philipp Marquart
varavilindo
Jul 30, 2006 7:30 pm
"On the far (East) Horn of the Gates is a tall white tower. _Minas Ithil_ now _Minas Morghul_... It had been called [_Neleg Thilim_ >] _Neleglos_ [the Gleaming...
925
dirk_math
Aug 6, 2006 9:48 pm
A year has slipped by since the first Omentielva, and a year from now Omentielva Tatya will be held. Registration will soon open; meanwhile, find out more...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Sep 10, 2006 7:31 pm
In Lambengolmor message 924 (<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor/message/924>), ... Perhaps _-im_ is best explainable as being the cognate of...
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Philipp Marquart
varavilindo
Sep 16, 2006 1:17 pm
In VII:223 is a nice poem (written around August 1940) in which the name _Nimrodel_, and its precedent forms, first appears. We have _Linglorel_, _Inglorel_,...
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BertrandBellet75@...
bertrand_bellet
Sep 20, 2006 12:17 am
Greetings all, My friend Benjamin Babut and myself would like to present a new website about Tolkien's languages we just released, entitled : _Glaemscrafu - ...
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Philipp Marquart
varavilindo
Oct 9, 2006 12:58 pm
"It is told that in that feast of the Spring of Arda Tulkas espoused _Lëa-vinya_, fairest of the maidens of Yavanna, and Vana robed her in flowers that came...
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laurifindil
Oct 18, 2006 11:33 pm
Hello all! In his _Early Quenya Grammar_, Tolkien presents the use of the conjunction _mai_ 'if'. Unfortunately he does not translate one of the example...
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William Cloud Hicklin
icelofangeln
Oct 27, 2006 12:42 pm
You know, I've felt guilty for the better part of a decade for my unthinking and unauthorized posting of that snippet on Usenet- especially since soon...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Oct 27, 2006 12:44 pm
Mellyn! In Christie's sale November 15 (catalogue named _Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts_), lot 152 is an inscribed set of _The Lord of the Rings_,...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 27, 2006 3:25 pm
Thanks to Anders for passing along notice of this very interesting letter! I can add one bit of information not mentioned in the exhibit catalogue, which is...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Oct 27, 2006 3:59 pm
... Very interesting! I cannot resist analyzing this right away: _mondósaresse_ 'in Oxford' In Letter no.342 Tolkien gives "the elvish word for 'bull'" as...
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Carl F. Hostetter
endorendil
Oct 27, 2006 5:40 pm
... That should read "placed _above_ the consonant", of course; sorry for the typo. Carl...
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Richard Derdzinski
galadhorn
Oct 28, 2006 2:10 am
... What about connecting _-(a)sta-r_ with Tulkas's title: _Astaldo_ 'The Valiant'? In my humble opinion the second element in the name _Mondósar(e)_ 'Oxford'...
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laurifindil
Oct 28, 2006 1:33 pm
... _mundo_ (apparently in Quenya), so that one can identify _mondo_ 'ox' here. _Mundo_ can hardly be anything but Quenya. Its CE etymon could be *_mundô_ or...
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laurifindil
Oct 28, 2006 1:48 pm
Sindacollo is according to Christopher Tolkien one of the names of Elu-thingol in Quenya in his "Silmarillion" (1977). But in HOME the name is always spelled...
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Florian Dombach
florian_loth...
Oct 28, 2006 4:04 pm
Just a minor correction: For me the first word of the Elvish greeting (inscribed by Tolkien in the copy of _The Fellowship of the Ring_ being auctioned) reads...
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Roman Rausch
rausch_roman
Oct 28, 2006 4:16 pm
... I believe that _Astaldo_ should be rather related to STÁLAG- with primitive _stalga_ 'stalwart, steady, firm', N _thalion_ 'hero, dauntless man' (V:388)...
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laurifindil
Oct 28, 2006 4:22 pm
EQG:74 the accustaive plural of _lama_ is given as LAMIN instead of LAMNIN; cf. EQG:44. [This should indeed read LAMNIN, not **LAMIN. Thanks for catching this!...
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Beregond. Anders Sten...
j_beregond
Oct 28, 2006 6:22 pm
... I read the first line and a half in this way: "Here {or "Above"?} are some specimens. A is a transliteration of English. But this happens " [Aha! I think...
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F.S.
frestro
Oct 28, 2006 8:44 pm
It has long appeared to me that as printed in _The Peoples of Middle-earth_ (XII:295-320), the essay 'Of Dwarves and Men' is strangely circular in disposition....
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Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Oct 31, 2006 12:32 pm
... *_asare-_ could be from THAR- with prefixed root vowel as in _anar_, _isil_, _Aman_. In the absence of a case ending one would expect the name to appear as...
