5/25/2023 0 Comments Quenya those who remain![]() (Indeed it is sometimes the plight of the editors to point out occasional errors in Christopher Tolkien's transcription see pages 75, 79, 80, 90, 94, 95, 98, 99, 100, 101, 106.)īased on the very substantial and representative excerpt in the appendices to LT1 and LT2, the language of the Qenya Lexicon could have been satisfactorily reviewed already fifteen years ago, and some observations were indeed done also before the entire QL at long last appeared. 335-349) amount to no less than a fifth of the total. (One estimate by the editors, "over 2,500", is technically correct but far too conservative.) While one of the editors some time ago made the peculiar contention that we learnt the entire contents of the Lexicon from them, fact is of course that a very substantial part of the Lexicon was published already in 1983-84: Taken together, the words quoted by Christopher Tolkien in the appendices to LT1 (p. Organized by "roots", somewhat like the Etymologies, the Qenya Lexicon contains well over 3,300 Qenya words. ![]() Originally written in 1915, the Qenyaqetsa or Qenya Lexicon documents the beginnings of Tolkien's development of High-elven - a process that would go on for decades before LotR-style Quenya was reached, and in one sense not ending before it inevitably ceased with Tolkien's death. In this review I will however concentrate on the Lexicon itself. Prefixed to the Qenya Lexicon proper, Parma also published 28 pages of dense phonological descriptions, the material referred to by Christopher Tolkien in LT1:247: "Some early phonological description does exist for Qenya, but this became through later alterations and substitutions such a baffling muddle (while the material is in any case intrinsically extremely complex) that I have been unable to make use of it." The editors are probably to be commended for managing to present this material in a reasonably readable format. The Quenya Lexicon Reviewed The Qenya Lexicon Reviewed Īfter several delays, the full contents of the fabled Qenya Lexicon was finally published in Parma Eldalamberon #12 in the early autumn of 1998 the QL now forms a counterpart to the Gnomish Lexicon published in Parma #11 in 1995.
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