PARMA ELDALAMBERON 16 Early Elvish Poetry and Pre-Fëanorian Alphabets By J. R. R. TOLKIEN http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma16.html _Parma Eldalamberon_ 'The...
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...
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...
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_,...
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...
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...
... _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...
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...
_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...
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!...
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...
In their excellent book _The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion_, Wayne G.Hammond and Christina Scull write: "haywards -- The term _hayward_ originally...
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...
"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...
Greetings all, My friend Benjamin Babut and myself would like to present a new website about Tolkien's languages we just released, entitled : _Glaemscrafu - ...
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_,...
"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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Hello! In the second part of _The Book of Lost Tales_ (p. 288) it is said that Tavrobel, the city of elves, is situated near the conjunction of two rivers,...
In the _War of the Ring_ on page 50 we find various forms for the treeish beings later known as _Huorns_ (s. a. RC:425). The first form reads _Galbedirs_,...
I'd like to draw your attention to some fragments published in VT27: (1) _dakar {dakaro} no giliar_ (VT27:17) (2) _vári to vanimar_ (VT27:35) Of course they...
VT 46:16, entry SUD- lists the N. words _thund, thonn; thonnas_ (first written _sunn, sonnas_). The -nd/-nn variation often occurs in the _Etymologies_ (e.g....
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...
