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Re: Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

Arden R. Smith — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:16:22 GMT

... Mach was referring to the size of the corpus. _Parma Eldalamberon_ 20 contains hardly any individual tengwar or tehtar that you haven't seen before. So

Re: Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

congruwer — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:03:02 GMT

... In order to remove all ambiguity for those of us who haven't read it, does this refer to the corpus or distinct symbols?

Re: Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

j_mach_wust@... — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:07:29 GMT

... I think _k_ would be just quesse, while _kw_ would really be quesse with w-tehta (in Q12, probably a plain left curl). While this is an unusual tehta to be

Re: Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

Arden R. Smith — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 09:48:41 GMT

... I should add that even though I'm convinced that Mach's interpretation here is absolutely correct, the spelling itself is problematic. Since we have calma

Re: Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

Arden R. Smith — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:10:21 GMT

... I was going to write an item-by-item response to your post, but since I ended up agreeing with you on every single point (even those softened with "I

Some PE20 alternate interpretations and errata

j_mach_wust@... — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 18:12:40 GMT

Hi all I have been so overwhelmed by the tons of new material in PE20 (the number of known tengwar has almost quadrupled) that only now I have worked my way

Re: Need help for a translation in elvish writing (Evenstar poem)

congruwer — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:39:34 GMT

I think you'll need the Sindarin mode described here: http://www.acondia.com/fonts/tengwar/info/sindar.htm Also, there are better fonts out there, so have a

Need help for a translation in elvish writing (Evenstar poem)

Khosrofian — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:34:53 GMT

Re: Parma Eldalamberon Issue No. 20 - announcement

congruwer — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:54:48 GMT

$35... out of print... It's 20-bloody-12, publish the thing digitally already.

Parma Eldalamberon Issue No. 20 - correction

cgilson75 — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 02:11:45 GMT

The previous message should have begun as follows: PARMA ELDALAMBERON 20 The Qenya Alphabet Documents by J. R. R. TOLKIEN

Parma Eldalamberon Issue No. 20 - announcement

cgilson75 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 21:30:37 GMT

PARMA ELDALAMBERON 18 The Qenya Alphabet Documents by J. R. R. TOLKIEN http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma18.html

Re: New tengwar and cirth in _The Art of the Hobbit_

Ugo — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:15:29 GMT

Actually in the Doriath long series in DCS17 we do have certh 13/E08E for [st] and certh 20/E093 for [h] (originally it stood for [ch] but a differentiaton

Re: New tengwar and cirth in _The Art of the Hobbit_

Ugo — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:47:04 GMT

... in runes, but unlike in Thrór's map, the runes are actually cirth. The text seems to contain some unusual features -- for example, the H rune has a

Re: More tengwar in PE19 (in OP2)

Mans — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:18:00 GMT

... That is enough to include them: the index is meant to reference the source documents, not published editions. Indeed, a text does not even have to be

Re: More tengwar in PE19 (in OP2)

Arden R. Smith — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:56:18 GMT

... As I recall, the general procedure in PE19 was to use scans when the manuscript had clearly written tengwar, but font replacements when it did not, e.g. in