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Ostadan writes: Carl Hostetter has posted the following announcement which may be of interest to both Elvish linguists and those interested in “Elvish culture” in general. “I am pleased to announce that ‘Vinyar Tengwar’ 47 will be published later this month. ‘VT’ 47 presents the first half of “‘Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals’ and Related Writings”, a four-part collection of late texts (c. 1968) by J.R.R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by Patrick H. Wynne.” [More]
Ostadan writes: Carl Hostetter has posted the following announcement which may be of interest to both Elvish linguists and those interested in “Elvish culture” in general.
I am pleased to announce that ‘Vinyar Tengwar’ 47 will be published later this month. ‘VT’ 47 presents the first half of “‘Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals’ and Related Writings”, a four-part collection of late texts (c. 1968) by J.R.R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by Patrick H. Wynne. Part I presents ‘Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals’ (HFN) proper, an unfinished “historical-philological” essay that provides an account of the Common Eldarin words for ‘hand’ and their descendants in Quenya, Telerin, and Sindarin, followed by a brief discussion of Elvish ambidexterity. The essay then details the Eldarin names for the fingers (and toes), including children’s “play-names” that treat the fingers as the members of an imaginary family: father, mother, and children; and it concludes by showing how the finger-names were closely connected with the development of numerical stems in Common Eldarin. Included after HFN is a related text on the invention of the Common Eldarin stems for ‘neter’ 9, ‘kanat’ 4, and ‘enek’ 6, which serves as a sort of alternative ending for the essay. Both of these texts are supplemented in the editorial notes by extensive citations drawn from Tolkien’s contemporary unpublished writings. Parts II–IV (the contents of which are described in the Introduction to HFN) will appear in ‘Vinyar Tengwar’ 48. [elvish.org]
Ian McKellen’s small Canadian indie film ‘Emile’ is now screening at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills, California. For those wishing to catch this film and help boost box office earnings. Follow this link! [More]
Deena writes: I came across this and thought it might be interesting for fans in the Boston area … a conference at Harvard on Folklore and Mythology, with a specific talk on Tolkien: James Russell “J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: A Russian Liberal Perspective”. For the details, this is the site to the department: [More] and the specific site to the conference: [More]
Carmet writes: On this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live on NBC, they featured a sketch in which women dressed up as characters from geek culture answer phone calls and try to cater to their fantasies. The first was Dungeons and Dragons, the second was Star Wars, then Star Trek, and the fourth was… yes, Lord of the Rings, dressed as Arwen, with the caller dressed as a hobbit. The caller got “turned on” as the two discussed traveling to Mordor and its geographical features.
