PARMA
ELDALAMBERON 14
EARLY
QENYA
and
The
VALMARIC SCRIPT
by J. R. R.
TOLKIEN
Parma Eldalamberon 'The Book of Elven-tongues', edited by
Christopher Gilson, is a journal of
the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship,
a special interest group of the Mythopoeic
Society.
This issue has
three
sections containing linguistic writings by J. R. R. Tolkien:
"Early Qenya Fragments", edited by Patrick Wynne and Christopher
Gilson; "Early Qenya Grammar", edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Bill
Welden; and "The Valmaric Script", edited by Arden R. Smith. Each
of these has been prepared
with the guidance of Christopher Tolkien and with the permission of the
Tolkien Estate.
"Early Qenya Fragments" is a
collection of Tolkien's tables and name-lists associated with The Book of Lost Tales, including
early names of the Days of the Elvish Week and the Valinorian
Fortnight, and names of the Valar and various Creatures of the Earth,
as Tolkien conceived of them in his earliest mythology. Also
included are paradigms of the Regular Qenya Verb conjugation associated
with the Qenya Lexicon.
"Early Qenya Grammar"
includes early writings on Qenya Phonology, together with the earliest
complete Qenya Grammar, describing the forms and inflections of the
Article, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Numbers, Pronouns, and
Verbs. Both of these texts date from the 1920s. Annotations
and commentary are provided for all of the Early Qenya texts, detailing
their interconnections and the evolution of the linguistic conceptions
contained within them.
"The Valmaric Script" is an
edition of various documents relating to an Elvish writing system
devised by Tolkien in the 1920s. One example of the script was
published previously in a drawing for the story Roverandom. This edition
incudes various charts of the sounds represented by the letters,
tracing Tolkien's experimentation with their forms and
applications. There are also examples of the Valmaric script used
for writing both Qenya and English, including an excerpt from the Old
English poem Beowulf. Transcriptions
of these texts and commentary on the chronology of the documents and
their conceptual evolution are included in this edition.
Parma
Eldalamberon
Issue Number 14 is a 136-page
journal.
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