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The '''''[[Ósanwe]]-[[centa|kenta]]''''' or "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought" is a manuscript by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]], written in c. 1959-60 as a typescript of eight pages, published in {{VT|39}} in 1998. A related manuscript, "Etymological Notes on the ''Ósanwe-kenta''", was published in {{VT|41}} in 2000.
The '''''[[Ósanwe]]-[[centa|kenta]]''''', or "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought", is a manuscript by [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]. It was written in c. [[1959]]-[[1960|60]] as a typescript of eight pages and was published in {{VT|39}}. A related manuscript, "Etymological Notes on the ''Ósanwe-kenta''", was published in {{VT|41}}.


In the framework of the [[legendarium]] of [[Middle-earth]], the text is a summary by an unnamed editor of a longer treatise by [[Pengolodh]] of [[Gondolin]].
In the framework of the [[legendarium]] of [[Middle-earth]], the text is a summary by an unnamed editor of a longer treatise by [[Pengolodh]] of [[Gondolin]].

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The Ósanwe-kenta, or "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought", is a manuscript by J.R.R. Tolkien. It was written in c. 1959-60 as a typescript of eight pages and was published in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 39, July 1998. A related manuscript, "Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta", was published in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 41, July 2000.

In the framework of the legendarium of Middle-earth, the text is a summary by an unnamed editor of a longer treatise by Pengolodh of Gondolin.

The subject-matter is sanwe-latya (Quenya for "thought-opening", but better translated as "telepathy"). Pengolodh included it as an appendix to the Lhammas because of the implications of tengwesta ("grammar, language") on thought-transmission, i.e. with the development of language, telepathy became more difficult and all but fell out of use among the "incarnated" (those beings with hröa).