Habt Acht! Wotan is returning soon. In 2011 he will be exploring several areas of Tolkien Scholarship and will try to be faithful to his readers!!!
just received the new copy of Parma Eldamberon 19 which I am going through. first evidence of Tolkien's first age Taliska language which this blog will seek to analyse. More to come!!
PARMA ELDALAMBERON 19
Quenya Phonology:
Comparative Tables
Outline of Phonetic Development
Outline of Phonology
By J. R. R. TOLKIEN
http://www.eldalamberon.com/parma19.html
Quenya phonology is a topic frequently discussed or alluded to by this group; and indeed a great deal is known about it, based on incidental statements made by Tolkien in various contexts and on inferences drawn from the evidence of attested examples of Quenya. So I hope it will be welcome news that Tolkien's own writings about this topic dating from the time of his composition of _The Lord of the Rings_ have now been published in _Parma Eldalamberon_ No. 19.
The "Outline of Phonology" is a comprehensive survey of all of the sounds and sound-combinations that occur in Quenya, including the divergences among the Vanyarin, Noldorin and Telerin dialects of the language, and variations over its recorded history such as those between _Parmaquesta_ or 'book-language' and _Tarquesta_ 'high-speech'. The sounds are all traced to their origins in Common Eldarin; and this forms the basis for the organization of the "Outline," which has sections on Consonants in Isolation, Initial Consonant Groups, Medial Combinations of Sounds, and Consonants Standing Finally, along with a section on Vowels that was left uncompleted. The text was composed around the time Tolkien began his revision of _The Silmarillion_ in 1951, and includes additions and emendations from certainly as late as 1959 and probably later; so it reflects the conception of Quenya that has come to be termed "LotR-Era" insofar as the writing is presumably intended to be consistent with Tolkien's published fiction.
The "Outline of Phonetic Development" is an earlier version of essentially the same survey, probably composed around the time of _The Etymologies_. In this text the part dealing with Vowels was completed, and it includes sub-sections on Changes Due to Accent and Stress, and Changes Produced in Hiatus.
The "Comparative Tables" are a series of charts laying out the regular correspondences among the sounds of the various languages Tolkien had invented by the late 1930s or conceived of as part of his history of the Elves, including Valarin, Quenya, Lindarin, Telerin, Noldorin, Ilkorin, Danian and Lemberin, as well as the Mannish language Taliskan. These are accompanied by Tolkien's notes on the general phonetic characteristics of the historical development of the languages, and on their phonological types in terms of the "real" languages on which
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Saturday, 11 December 2010
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Glyndebourne On the Big Screen(s) and Some New Tolkien Linguistic Goodies!!!
Its been a while...but I have been busy in the opera front. I write today about two exciting and very different initiatives of note:
Glyndebourne on Screen - this is an exciting new intuitive we have at Glyndebourne that is bringing some of our Glyndebourne opera productions to cinemas throughout the UK, United States, Europe and Japan. Now you can experience our current productions of Handel's Giulio Cesare (in a landmark production by the visionary opera director David McVicar), this summer's hit Hansel and Gretel and Rossini's Cenerentola in stunning high definition 5.1 stereo surround sound. The experience of seeing opera on a large screen o is a unique one - where else can you see a really tight close up on a singer as they are performing such a moving aria as Cleopatra's - Lascia ch'io pianga and Da Tempeste sung exquisitely by Glyndebourne's Cleopatra - the excellent Danielle De Niese.
And if you can't get to one of the close to 100 cinemas we are appearing at - you can also view excerpts from the operas on Telegraph TV iincluding the ability to embed these clips and email them to friends - a great way to get an opera party together to go to one of the Glyndebourne Screenings!!!! Here is an example of what you can experience:
On another completely different front - after the excitement of the publishing by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship of Parma Eldalamberon 17 containing Tolkien's guide to all the "foreign" words in Lord of the Rings there has been a bit of a pause in Tolkien linguistic analysis for the summer. Now the autumn (when it grows dark and there is more time for reading ans study) heralds forth two excellent works for study - the first is the published version of Thorsten Renk's Pedin Edhellen Sindarin Course which has been available as a PDF for some time but can now be purchased as a book to save one from killing many trees by printing out the work. I am half way through and I find his development of an actual course on Sindarin very well constructed with careful consideration (shaded in grey) for areas that are asterix conjecture - it also incorporates findings made from PE 17 including a much more fleshed out version of Tolkien's concept of the verb "to be" and personal pronouns.
Over at E.L.F - they have posted on a new article on their online journal Tengwestie by Helios De Rosario Martinez called Early Ilkorin Phonology. This article analyzes the develop of one of Tolkien's "minor" languages which he developed in the early phase of the development of his mythology - starting with the Book of Lost Tales and into the period when he was at the University of Leeds. Ilkorin is the language of those elves who "never saw the light of Kor" and therefore represents Tolkien's thoughts on that language who lingered in Middle Earth and did not have their tongue mingled with the Valar and/or Elves on the West. In the article Martinez states that Ilkorin was most likley a series of languages that included the language of Doriath (the language of Thingol and Melian).
It is quite interesting to see how Tolkien potentially modeled the phonological and morphology of this language and the development of proto-Germanic including parallel vowel shifts in key stages of its development. Martinez also states in his conclusion that "Ilkorin was supposed to be the germ of the languages of Men and that it changed less than the other tongues of the Elves." This got me thinking about one of Tolkien's languages that I am most interested in - the first language of Man - Taliska - which according to what we know about the language was based on Tolkien's love of Gothic. I did query this to Lambengolmor - the Tolkien linguistic mail group -and was told by ELF editor Carl F. Hostetter that we should revisit this question when the information on Taliska is finally published - Carl indicated that he was working on editing this but that it was going slow (I volunteered to help) - so perhaps in the near future we can compare the language of Taliska with Ilkorin to see how much the Elves who stayed in Middle Earth in the first age had an impact on the development of the languages of Men - the languages we speak to this very day!!
The Tolkien books keep coming - and I am eagerly awaiting my order of The Proceedings from the 2005 Tolkien Society Conference in Birmingham which seems to be coming via Entish post!!!!
Glyndebourne on Screen - this is an exciting new intuitive we have at Glyndebourne that is bringing some of our Glyndebourne opera productions to cinemas throughout the UK, United States, Europe and Japan. Now you can experience our current productions of Handel's Giulio Cesare (in a landmark production by the visionary opera director David McVicar), this summer's hit Hansel and Gretel and Rossini's Cenerentola in stunning high definition 5.1 stereo surround sound. The experience of seeing opera on a large screen o is a unique one - where else can you see a really tight close up on a singer as they are performing such a moving aria as Cleopatra's - Lascia ch'io pianga and Da Tempeste sung exquisitely by Glyndebourne's Cleopatra - the excellent Danielle De Niese.
And if you can't get to one of the close to 100 cinemas we are appearing at - you can also view excerpts from the operas on Telegraph TV iincluding the ability to embed these clips and email them to friends - a great way to get an opera party together to go to one of the Glyndebourne Screenings!!!! Here is an example of what you can experience:
On another completely different front - after the excitement of the publishing by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship of Parma Eldalamberon 17 containing Tolkien's guide to all the "foreign" words in Lord of the Rings there has been a bit of a pause in Tolkien linguistic analysis for the summer. Now the autumn (when it grows dark and there is more time for reading ans study) heralds forth two excellent works for study - the first is the published version of Thorsten Renk's Pedin Edhellen Sindarin Course which has been available as a PDF for some time but can now be purchased as a book to save one from killing many trees by printing out the work. I am half way through and I find his development of an actual course on Sindarin very well constructed with careful consideration (shaded in grey) for areas that are asterix conjecture - it also incorporates findings made from PE 17 including a much more fleshed out version of Tolkien's concept of the verb "to be" and personal pronouns.Over at E.L.F - they have posted on a new article on their online journal Tengwestie by Helios De Rosario Martinez called Early Ilkorin Phonology. This article analyzes the develop of one of Tolkien's "minor" languages which he developed in the early phase of the development of his mythology - starting with the Book of Lost Tales and into the period when he was at the University of Leeds. Ilkorin is the language of those elves who "never saw the light of Kor" and therefore represents Tolkien's thoughts on that language who lingered in Middle Earth and did not have their tongue mingled with the Valar and/or Elves on the West. In the article Martinez states that Ilkorin was most likley a series of languages that included the language of Doriath (the language of Thingol and Melian).
It is quite interesting to see how Tolkien potentially modeled the phonological and morphology of this language and the development of proto-Germanic including parallel vowel shifts in key stages of its development. Martinez also states in his conclusion that "Ilkorin was supposed to be the germ of the languages of Men and that it changed less than the other tongues of the Elves." This got me thinking about one of Tolkien's languages that I am most interested in - the first language of Man - Taliska - which according to what we know about the language was based on Tolkien's love of Gothic. I did query this to Lambengolmor - the Tolkien linguistic mail group -and was told by ELF editor Carl F. Hostetter that we should revisit this question when the information on Taliska is finally published - Carl indicated that he was working on editing this but that it was going slow (I volunteered to help) - so perhaps in the near future we can compare the language of Taliska with Ilkorin to see how much the Elves who stayed in Middle Earth in the first age had an impact on the development of the languages of Men - the languages we speak to this very day!!
The Tolkien books keep coming - and I am eagerly awaiting my order of The Proceedings from the 2005 Tolkien Society Conference in Birmingham which seems to be coming via Entish post!!!!
Sunday, 15 July 2007
Turin and the Dragon - Lines 39-44 and another Tolkien language
Some time this weekend to resume work on the Sindarin translation of Turin and the Dragon - here are lines 39-44 -
Dan dur din aun Morgoth Bauglir
in na ruith um gwennen
u-sint*
Ethir din, hur um egor galu en golu din
u-aunant siniath en gardh
in gwaith en Golodhrim bant
but the triumph he turned to doubt
of Morgoth the evil whom mad wrath took
Nor spies sped him, nor spirits of evil,
nor his wealth of wisdom to win him tidings
whither the nation of the Gnomes was gone.
*u-sint: based on the verb _ista_ (know) and the _u_ not. I found a gloss on a German Sindarin site for the word _zweifel_ which is _trass_ but can not find any source for it (yet) in Tolkien.
Just w
hen you thought you have read about all of the languages Tolkien developed comes a new one (for me) - and that is Mago/Magol which is mentioned in the notes to book two of The History of the Hobbit (excellent book). Mago/Magol was developed by Tolkien based on, according to the ELF panel, Hungarian. At one time he intended to have the orcs speak it but decided not to. ELF promises that his grammar and notes for Mago/Magol will be published in the future. In a great email Patrick Wayne sent in response on the Labengolmor list (#1012) he said the language would have the sound of Elves who lived in Budapest!! Should be interesting - but first Taliska (I hope)...over and out.
Dan dur din aun Morgoth Bauglir
in na ruith um gwennen
u-sint*
Ethir din, hur um egor galu en golu din
u-aunant siniath en gardh
in gwaith en Golodhrim bant
but the triumph he turned to doubt
of Morgoth the evil whom mad wrath took
Nor spies sped him, nor spirits of evil,
nor his wealth of wisdom to win him tidings
whither the nation of the Gnomes was gone.
*u-sint: based on the verb _ista_ (know) and the _u_ not. I found a gloss on a German Sindarin site for the word _zweifel_ which is _trass_ but can not find any source for it (yet) in Tolkien.
Just w
hen you thought you have read about all of the languages Tolkien developed comes a new one (for me) - and that is Mago/Magol which is mentioned in the notes to book two of The History of the Hobbit (excellent book). Mago/Magol was developed by Tolkien based on, according to the ELF panel, Hungarian. At one time he intended to have the orcs speak it but decided not to. ELF promises that his grammar and notes for Mago/Magol will be published in the future. In a great email Patrick Wayne sent in response on the Labengolmor list (#1012) he said the language would have the sound of Elves who lived in Budapest!! Should be interesting - but first Taliska (I hope)...over and out.
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