PARMA ELDALAMBERON 23
The Feanorian
Alphabet, Part 2
and
Eldarin
Pronouns
by J. R. R. TOLKIEN
Parma Eldalamberon ‘The Book of Elven-tongues’
is a journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship,
a special interest group of the Mythopoeic Society. The current issue is a
collection of writings by J. R. R. Tolkien concerning
his invented languages and scripts. These writings
have been edited and annotated by Christopher Gilson and
Arden R. Smith, under the guidance of Christopher
Tolkien and with the permission of the Tolkien
Estate.
“The Feanorian
Alphabet, Part 2” includes three descriptions of
this writing system, dating from around 1948 to
1951. (A description of the earliest version was
published in Parma Eldalamberon 22.)
Four modes are described in detail representing usage in
different regions of Middle-earth: Beleriand, Númenor, Arnor and Gondor, as these
modes were applied to the Noldorin,
Westron, and English
languages. Charts and examples of the use of the tengwar incorporate
scanned images from Tolkien’s manuscripts with
transcriptions.
Edited by Arden R. Smith.
“Eldarin Pronouns”
includes five grammatical texts treating personal,
demonstrative, and relative pronouns in Quenya and the
definite article in Sindarin. “Qenya Personal Pronouns” is
part of a Qenya Grammar from the 1940s, describing the
forms and grammar of these pronouns. The closely
contemporary “Demonstrative,
Relative, and Correlative Stems” describes
the forms and grammar of non-personal pronouns in
Quenya. “Eldarin
Personal Pronouns” from the early 1950s
describes the etymological origin of the Quenya
personal pronouns from Common Eldarin
bases.
“Eldarin
Pronouns, Demonstrative and Correlatives” is
a revision and elaboration of “Eldarin Personal
Pronouns” dating from the late 1950s, in which Tolkien
began to incorporate etymological explanations for
demonstrative pronouns. “Common
Eldarin Article” is a typescript from 1968 or
1969 describing the etymological origin of the Quenya and Sindarin definite
articles from the Common Eldarin demonstrative
pronoun; the usage of the article in
Quenya; and the consonant mutations associated
with the article in the grammar of Sindarin.
Edited by Christopher
Gilson.
Parma Eldalamberon Issue Number 23 is a 146-page journal.
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