EJK had some interesting thoughts about the development of initial ... English think). ... possessed a grade with extended stems, both above and below the...
... I don't quite follow you. Do you mean that _enin, emil_ may parallell German "Ich heisse x", "Du heisst x"; Icel. "eg heiti x", "thu heitir x"; &c (read...
... Sorry to say, I have been meaning to retract my statement on that matter but had not yet found the time in my busy schedule. I had confused two passages...
I can agree with almost everything David Salo said about the problems with some of the "Qenya" words in TY- that Ed listed. Just a few comments. ... *kyas-; if...
This is how a Dictionary with all words published to date [Only the letter TY is proposed] from Qenya and Quenya would look like without any "choosing";. The...
... [snip] ... Elvish will ... academy, it does ... Elvish ... Tolklang ... absolute ... On this basis, I really don't think people are so far apart. ...
... construction " I have " would sound in Qenya. ** No need for the desperate solutions you go on to outline. True, there is no published mature Quenya word...
... Yes, there must be such Dictionary. But it should include the different versions that exist for many features. None is too right, none is too wrong. Many...
Today I finnished a Tengwar-Editor for my font . If anyone wants to use it or make changes on it please e-mail me . The program is written for DOS and needs...
Hello everybody, I'm a brazilian vet, 32 years old, that love all the Tolkien's world. I'm looking for news, discussions, tips, etc, about the Middle Earth. ...
I'm new on the list, and I'd like to introduce myself. I am Felipe Aichele and I was born in Santiago, Chile, where I've always lived. I apologize beforehand...
Much of the rest of what I have to say will be repetitive, because several people have made these or similar arguments already. A fairly common mode of...
I'd like to thank Dorothea for her analysis of the factors influencing language change, but I would contend that any discussion of prestige or elite dominance...
I promised I'd get back to this, so I will... I think it important in this discussion to have a basic awareness of how languages change, and how people have...
This is about the importance of a common basic vocabulary , which is necessary for an effective learning and understanding of any vital language . This means...
In his first phonological essay Tolkien writes (Parma 12, page 16) : Tolkien used many diacritical signs, I have added some comment to make it more clear (I...
(The following is based in part on discussions with Philip Jonsson) For a long time, from its inception down to a point about half-way or further through the...
Tolkien didn't leave us a word for to have and so I though how the construction " I have " would sound in Qenya . I thought that it's maybe a construction of...
The Quenya inventory of consonant phonemes may, based on Tolkien's Roman Quenya "orthography", the Feanorian Tengwar orthography and Eldarin comparative...
At last, after many years of (impatient) waiting we can start to see (and read) Tolkien's own phonological studies on Q(u)enya. His first (preserved) attempt...
Hello, Just wanted to say Hi. I'm David Hintz from Oregon (a.k.a. Seric Silverleaf) I joined this list so I could get some good things to forward to my Elven...
... the ... In fact there is a word _Golodhrin_ in the second Tree of Tongues of the Lhammas and Ancient Golodhrin as ancestor to the two living "Nolodorin" ...
Hi, I was just wondering whether these posting are going to be archived somewhere since I sometimes miss postings and have to do a lot of catching up. Regards,...
... alphabet (A-K), whereas those that end in -ir (or in one case -ar) are in the second part of the alphabet (L-W). Tolkien changed his mind on the form of...
What I am calling "Late Old Quenya" is documented only in a few places, the most important of which is four poems of c. 1930 from the essay "A Secret Vice",...
**well, let's see if I can post on here. I've alphabetized the list of verbs that Chris Gilson is arguing about on the TolkLang list. He says they show a...
