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 I asked Adam Tolkien at the London launch of _Children of Húrin_ about the status of Tolkien's unpublished grammar and he did not...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...
... Another example of -ST + F- > -SF- in a Noldorin compound is cited in the Etymologies s.v. IS-, where Tolkien notes that _Isfin_ (the early name of...
I'd like to use this forum to correct an error I just noticed in my article "Languages Invented by Tolkien", in the recently published _J.R.R. Tolkien...
Thanks for an issue of _VT_ well worth waiting for. According to VT49:15, the element _-la_ in _pella_ 'beyond (the borders of)' (R:66) is identified as _lá_ ...
Over on Elfling, in message 34172 ... David doesn't state on what he bases this definition of the aorist, but if he means it to describe how Tolkien used the...
I too find the similarity in form and meaning between _sanya_ 'regular, law-abiding, normal' (V:388) and _senya_ 'usual' intriguing (see VT49:22), but I wonder...
I am currently reading and enjoying the second volume of the History of the Hobbit. While reading on my patio (on the one day it is not raining in London) I...
... Very intriguing! I wonder whether there is some connection between _Mágo(l)_ and the names we get to know from Michael Ramer (a fictional professor of...
The first volume of _Arda Philology_, containing the proceedings of Omentielva Minya in Stockholm August 2005, is now being printed. More information is at ...
I am hearing rumors (fama volat) that Parma 17 exists and that it contains information on Tolkien's exotic languages in LOTR (including Khuzdul). Any info on...
[I'm approving this for the list, but I ask that any further discussion of the project be conducted off list. I am myself very dubious about the value and...
"Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in 'The Lord of the Rings'." By J. R. R. Tolkien "Parma Eldalamberon," 'The Book of Elven-tongues', is a...
Yesterday, I received my copy of _Arda Philology_ I, constituting the Proceedings of _Omentielva Minya_, the First International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien's...
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