In VT43 the noun _thahtie/sahtie_ 'pressure or force (to do something against one's will or conscience)' is said on pg. 22 to come from etymon _thakta-_, which...
Finally today I've received "The Collected Vinyar Tengwar vol. 3", so I was able to look at the "Bodleian Declension" (BD). (Until now I've tried to...
In the transcription of the two samples of the first four lines in _sarati_ (R17) is written _luti-er_, which should be _lúti-er_ in both the horizontal and...
Ugo Truffelli's post was forwarded to me for my feedback, but I must have unknowingly approved it without appending my comments. Ugo is quite correct, but this...
Hello All ! First of all I would like to thank you for Parma 16. It looks like "oromandi" PE16:96 should be 'mountain dwellers', not _dweller_, I guess ? ...
With the _very_ kind permission of the editors and publishers of _The Lord of the Rings 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder_[1], I am...
Yahoo group's handling of links is sorely vexing. The unmangled link to the E.L.F.'s "Articles" page, where "Elvish as She Is Spoke" can be found, is: ...
There is still a discrepancy here, since on the next page, when we are discussing line 5 of the poem itself, we say that _oromandi_ is glossed as 'mountain...
[The following post falls outside the usual purview of this list, but is being allowed in the spirit of Christmas. It does not represent any change in list...
The 16th issue of _Parma Eldalamberon_ is a very welcome Christmas gift indeed. Lots of thanks to the editors for their unfailing work! In the first part of...
Fellow Tolkien scholars -- Would you like to host Omentielva Nelya? This year's conference (Omentielva Tatya) will be held in Antwerp. One of the last things...
I am just digesting the extraordinary amount of information provided in the analysis of the three "Secret Vice" poems, i.e. "_Oilima Markirya_", "_Nieninqe_"...
... It also occurs in the so called 'Plotz Declension', cf. VT28:10. Note also the short(er) locative in _-se_ found in the _Átaremma_ (Pater Noster) ...
Dear Lambengolmor, What is your opinion on the etymology of the Quenya language-names in _-rin_ i.e. Eldarin, Sindarin, Telerin, Valarin etc.? Such names are ...
... Early Qenya language-names had also a similar form: see the list of languages _Eldarin_, _Noldorin_, _Solosimpilin_, _Qenyarin_, _Inwelin_, _Telellin_,...
We have also a direct attestation on this matter in the GL: _glin_ 'sound, voice, utterance, cp. suffix _-glin_, _-grin_, _-drin_, in names of languages'...
... Yes, **_lasselantelingea_ is a typo for _lasselantalingea_. (Sorry to take so long to answer this, but I've only just now had time to find my photocopy of...
In QL:89 s.v. TAPA, we can read the bracketed phrase _i·rendi tapatenda_ = 'thieves'. This seems to be a metaphorical expression, in which the second term...
... In Dutch, a relatively common way of referring to thieves as a group, an (under)class of humanity in a manner of speaking, is "het dievengilde", meaning...
Volume 1 of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issues 1–10, and is available for order on the E.L.F. Storefront at Lulu.com (<http://www.lulu.com/ELF/>)...
Roman Rausch has been compiling an extensive index, with commentary and analysis, of all Elvish personal and place names given in _The Return of the Shadow_,...
I'm wondering about Taliska. I asked Adam Tolkien at the London launch of _Children of Húrin_ about the status of Tolkien's unpublished grammar and he did not...
I expect to publish _Vinyar Tengwar_ 49 around the end of May. Due to the cyclic nature of the older subscription model, a very large number of subscriptions...
In the last day I had the opportunity to take a more careful look at E1a and E1b on PE16:98-104. In november I started to analyze "Earendel" as we knew it from...
This 60-page issue features the third and final part of Patrick Wynne's presentation of "_Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals_ and Related Writings", which...
Volume 5b of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_ collects issues 41–49, and is available for order on the E.L.F. Storefront at Lulu.com <http://www.lulu.com/ELF/>...
The name _Asfaloth_ is one of the most important Elvish names to which no generally agreed etymology has been found to this day. A query for "Asfaloth" on...
In response to several requests, I have issued a new Special Series of _The Collected Vinyar Tengwar_, re-collecting various multi-part works contained in the...
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