Bill Welden a écrit :It seemed a long way in the future when we first started talking
about it, but in a little more than a month it will be history.

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The First International Conference on
J.R.R. Tolkien's Invented Languages (Omentielva Minya)
University of Stockholm, 4-8 August 2005
www.omentielva.com
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If you plan to be a part of this history it's time to make your
travel plans (or at least to send a paper for inclusion in the
program).

Here's what you can look forward to (or soon, will be looking back
on):

o Meet, work, and break bread with leaders in the field of Tolkien
linguistic scholarship.

o Listen to and discuss presentations on various aspects of Tolkien's
invented languages.

o Participate in workshops and discussion panels. Breakthroughs in
knotty areas of Elvish scholarship are possible when you get a dozen
passionate intelligent people working face-to-face!

o Experience Quenya as a language of art at our Elvish poets circle.

o There will be at least one opportunity to try your skill at using
spoken Quenya to communicate effectively!

o Come with us on a field-trip to the king-mounds at Uppsala (very
similar to the mounds at Edoras).

o Take a rune-stone excursion.

o Help plan for the future of Omentielva. We will announce the
location of the 2007 conference and work together to plan the
conference in 2009.

I'm looking forward to the chance to meet many of you in person. If
you're coming, I'll see you there!

--Bill Welden

bliothecaire a écrit :Salut à tous,

L'Astrolabe médiathèque de Melun (77) propose les 3, 5 et 6 juin prochain des cours d'elfique (Quenya) par Edouard Kloczko.
Gratuit sur inscription
Renseignements et inscriptions à l'espace Déclic Niveau 2
declic@astrolabe-melun.fr
01.60.56.04.70 (standard)
www.astrolabe-melun.fr


Merci
L'équipe des bibliothécaires de Déclic

Christopher Gilson a écrit :A new issue of _Parma Eldalamberon_ was published a couple of months ago and the response, it is a pleasure to acknowledge, has been more extensive and rapid than anticipated. We are thankful to the members of Lambengolmor and other Elvish students and Tolkien enthusiasts, whose tremendous support makes it possible for us to continue the publication of Tolkien's writings about his invented languages and scripts. Following the publication of this new issue many of you wrote to ask about the back issues of _Parma_ that are not currently in print.

Of these _Parma Eldalamberon_ no. 14, originally published in 2003, has not yet had a second printing, and has been unavailable the longest. So we decided to move forward with a reprint of this issue. Copies should be available for shipping by early next month and can be purchased now via PayPal at the webpage link given above.

_Parma_ no. 14 contains writings from the 1920s, perhaps the most interesting for the student of Elvish being the "Early Qenya Grammar." This is Tolkien's first grammatical description of this language that is complete in the sense of laying out in full the forms and inflections of the Article, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Numbers, Pronouns, and Verbs. While his conceptions would undergo much revision in later years, many of the basic grammatical features of Quenya are already present, along with some details of Tolkien's thoughts on the language that could only be inferred from later writings. This grammar and the other "Early Qenya Fragments" included in this issue provide a window into some of the unique features of his developing linguistic creation.

_Parma_ no. 14 also contains "The Valmaric Script." This is an edition of the documentation for one of the types of script Tolkien invented in the 1920s, in a period of experimentation before the conception of the more familiar Feanorian script emerged in the next decade. One of the documents that illustrates the association of the languages and scripts at this period is a list of "parts of the body" (_rantali n·kolumen_) given in English and Qenya, with a Valmaric transcription of the Qenya forms. "The Valmaric Script" includes all of Tolkien's charts and examples of the versions and modes of this invented alphabet, except for those included in the incomplete English-Qenya dictionary, which was published in _Parma Eldalamberon_ issue no. 15.

The reprint of _Parma Eldalamberon_ issue no. 14 is currently at the printer. The expected publication date is February 8, 2010.

Advanced Orders can be made now at the cost of $30.00 per copy including postage and handling world-wide.

Electronic payment by PayPal can be made at the following link: http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma14.html

Arden R. Smith a écrit :Dans les manuscrits sur lesquels se basent les présentations de Quettar 13 et 14, le zéro a clairement la forme d'un c retourné. Il ne devrait pas ressembler à la moitié droite d'un cœur, tel que C[hristopher] R[euel] T[olkien] l'a écrit le plus souvent.

Quant au tengwa qui représente /y/ dans le Mode de Beleriand, toutes les tables non publiées de ce mode s'accordent sur le fait que la boucle de la lettre devrait en fait être close. Cela étant, il devrait être encodé comme une lettre indépendante et non comme un usage alternatif du silme nuquerna.