"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...
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...
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...
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_,...
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...
... Very interesting! I cannot resist analyzing this right away: _mondósaresse_ 'in Oxford' In Letter no.342 Tolkien gives "the elvish word for 'bull'" as...
... 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'...
... _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...
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...
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...
... I believe that _Astaldo_ should be rather related to STÁLAG- with primitive _stalga_ 'stalwart, steady, firm', N _thalion_ 'hero, dauntless man' (V:388)...
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!...
... 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...
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....
... *_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...
Jerome Colburn
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Oct 31, 2006 12:32 pm
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_I ner eldalluva_ EQG:47 and 79 is translated "The man from the Elves". This translation is not clear for me. Does it mean "That Elvish Man", e.g. the usual...
Dear Friends, I've worked very hard and I'm proud to announce that I finished some of my font projects. I've improved the font Tengwar Elfica and just...
... It could, but then it would be strange, all the same. Noldorin/Sindarin _athrad_ "ford" is not from that root. In "The Silmarillion Index" C. Tolkien...
My passion for Tolkien languages (especially Q(u)enya) has brought me to the land of the "external-evolution" lovers; even if when I started (6 years ago) to...
... The wild thought has occurred to me to read it as *_ar-cas+ta-r_: an agent noun in _-r_ to a verb *_casta-_ (in turn formed by adding causative _-ta_ to...
Jerome Colburn
jcolburn@...
Nov 1, 2006 6:59 pm
950
... In Note 24 to Quendi and Eldar, we learn that "[m]edial z < s had became r in the Ńoldorin dialect of Q except when an adjacent syllable, or (as here) the...
Andreas Johansson
andjo@...
Nov 1, 2006 7:01 pm
951
Since I don't own the QL, I was hoping somebody who does (or the eds) could tell me: in the Parma Eldalamberon edition, are the entries from the "earliest...
... Right. Then can a reasonably firm date be assigned to "The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa," and can it serve as a "snapshot" in time? [Quoting...
... It was Garth's book that got me started- he makes some (to me) startling assertions, yet he gives no sources beyond PE, VT, and HME. So how does one (did...
... The process was lengthy (involving all the spare hours of about two weeks). Among other things, I rearranged QL in the order it appears in Tolkien's ...
... Hm. I thought the stress in _Mondósaresse_ would lie on the _e_ preceding the double consonant _ss_ (according to the pronunciation rules as for example...
In the typescript EQG (PE14:85) we have _úqe_ 'it rains', but _uqe_ with a short u in the manuscript EGQ (56). [Both are correct per the original. CFH] ...
At last we are able to open registration for Omentielva Tatya, that will take place in Antwerp on August 8 - 11, 2007. The conference fee is 165 euro. We do...
... The catalogue has arrived, and everything is legible. The words above the second line of tengwar are: "In Elvish language & script" The note in green...
