Two great TV series out on DVD today. First up is the crime drama mini series ‘The Grid’ starring Bernard Hill as an MI-5 Agent. You can also pick up the award winning first season of Brad Dourif’s new show ‘Deadwood’. [More]
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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 Both of these texts are supplemented in the editorial notes by extensive citations drawn from Tolkien’s contemporary unpublished writings.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]