... 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 Ñoldorin 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...
Hello, ... This is the realm of guesswork: the rule, as given, does imply that we could have _s_/_r_ alternations in the paradigm relative to stress (witness...
Beregond/Anders Stenström wrote: ... ... May I ask for the last sign of the second tengwar transcription of 'Mondósaresse'? On the scan available at...
... My original objection was mainly to Roman's statement that in _Mondósaresse_ the _s_ is followed by the stressed vowel, which is patently false (if one...
On reflection, I think that I should relay the following thought to the list. As I had shown Beregond's [Anders Stenström's] initial post and Christie's lot...
... <johnwgarth@...> wrote: [a very informative post] Erm- that'll teach me to read the endnotes carefully before spouting...... One (perhaps the only)...
... An example for an ancient compound with rhotacism carried out seems to exist, namely: Q _Tindómerel_ *'daughter/child of twilight' (V:385) with the...
... My bad! I had intended to reference Mr Garth's published comments, which my own slender observations are merely meant to supplement; but somehow neglected...
In looks to me that the Gnomish noun _saib_ a "boat", according to the Gnomish Lexicon, p. 66, should read "boot" instead. It comes from the root Sayap- and in...
I have been thinking about the name _Dagmor_ of Beren's sword (III:344, 350). This is the part of "The Lay of Leithian Recommenced" which comes from fifties or...
... I have seen this analysis and I have found there as many as _six_ compounds built like _Dagmor_ according to my theory (ie. _dag-_ verb 'slay' + _baur_...
I'm still analysing the "Secret Vice Poems" (note that I've discarded some notes found in the working analysis of "_Earendel_" put on-line 15 days ago, I'll...
... The six examples given above can, I think, all be interpreted as consisting of a verbal element with different kinds of complements. They can, then, be...
... I forgot to quote the example of assimilation _e < ai_ in EQG:45,77 sg _anda_ pl _ande (<ai)_; this is the closer attestation of such assimilation, but it...
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 16 Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets By J. R. R. TOLKIEN http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma16.html _Parma Eldalamberon_ 'The...
In _The Etymologies_ we see under stem MIL-IK- some rather strange words which were apparently altered. When the "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies"...
Hello, In VT48:11, in the "Appendix B: Quenya fractions", a word for '1/4' is _kanasta_, also on page 12; but on page 14, in comparison with the early Qenya...
