Parma Eldalamberon 14

Parma Eldalamberon 14 Early Qenya and Valmaric
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Author	J.R.R. Tolkien
Editor	Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne, Carl F. Hostetter, Bill Welden, Arden R. Smith
Illustrator	Adam Victor Christensen (cover art)
Publisher	Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
Released	23 December 2003
Format	Paperback journal
Pages	136

Parma Eldalamberon 14: Early Qenya and Valmaric is the fourtheenth issue of Parma Eldalamberon, a journal of linguistic studies of the Elvish languages and names in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The issue was revised in 2011 for the third printing.

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Contents

• Early Qenya Fragments
  • The Creatures of the Earth
  • The Names of the Valar
  • Otsan and Kainendan
  • Matar and Tulir
  • The Qenya Verb Forms

• Early Qenya Grammar
  • Introduction
  • Qenya Grammar in Manuscript
  • Qenya Phonology
  • Qenya Grammar in Typescript

• The Valmaric Script
  • Introduction
  • Texts and Commentary

• List of Abbreviations

Description

"Early Qenya Fragments" is a collection of Tolkien's tables and name-lists associated with The Book of Lost Tales, including early names of the Days of the Elvish Week and the Valinorian Fortnight, and names of the Valar and various Creatures of the Earth, as Tolkien conceived of them in his earliest mythology. Also included are paradigms of the Regular Qenya Verb conjugation associated with the "Qenya Lexicon" (Parma 12).

"Early Qenya Grammar" includes early writings on Qenya Phonology, together with the earliest complete Qenya Grammar, describing the forms and inflections of the Article, Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Numbers, Pronouns, and Verbs. Both of these texts date from the 1920s. Annotations and commentary are provided for all of the Early Qenya texts, detailing their interconnections and the evolution of the linguistic conceptions contained within them.

"The Valmaric Script" is an edition of various documents relating to an Elvish writing system devised by Tolkien in the 1920s. One example of the script was published previously in a drawing for the story Roverandom. This edition includes various charts of the sounds represented by the letters, tracing Tolkien's experimentation with their forms and applications. There are also examples of the Valmaric script used for writing both Qenya and English, including an excerpt from the Old English poem Beowulf. Transcriptions of these texts and commentary on the chronology of the documents and their conceptual evolution are included in this edition.

External links

• John Garth, Review of Parma Eldalamberon 13 and 14, originally in Tolkien Studies. 2
• Official product on Eldalamberon.com (currently unavailable)