Only two more hours until Omentielva tatya.

Johan Vanhecke setting the scene for the meeting.

Hedwig Valkiers and Martin Pühringer preparing the dinner table.

Bill Welden introducing Practical Elvish I.

Attentive listerners from left to right: Benct Philip Jonsson, Helge Fauskanger, Bertrand Bellet, Don Anger.

Left to right: Dorine Ratulangie, Hedwig Valkiers.

No, we are not playing cards, we are practising Elvish: Dirk Trappers and Måns Björkman.

Johan Vanheke: Tolkien and Belgium.

Cooking by Beregond.

Practical Elvish I (led by Bill Welden).

Dinner at the evening school (shot 1).

Dinner at the evening school (shot 2).

Dinner at the evening school (shot 3).

Dinner at the evening school (shot 4).

Betrand Bellet presents Methodological Issues in Elvish Lexicography.

Beregond, Anders Stenström reports on Structural References to the Primary Sources.

Måns Björkman lectures on The Tengwar Mode of “The Etymologies”.

Delicious lunch at Lessius Hogeschool.

Benct Philip Jonsson deciphering Tolkien’s New English Alphabet.

Idem.

Julian Bradfield leads a seminar on the early version of “Namárie”.

Beregond at midnight preparing next day’s lunch.

Bertrand Bellet: Methodological Issues in Elvish Lexicography.

Structural References to the Primary Sources — Problems and Solutions (report by Beregond).

Måns Björkman: The Tengwar Mode of “The Etymologies” and Its Relation to Other Systems for Writing Quenya.

A rainy view on St. Andries church.

Deciphering and Reconstructing Tolkien’s New English Alphabet (workshop led by Beregond).

Benct Philip Jonsson transcribing the New English Alphabet fragment.

The Early Version of “Namárië” (seminar led by Julian Bradfield).

Elvish Poets’ Circle (led by Valeria Barouch).

Bertrand Bellet reading some of his Elvish poems.

Helge Fauskanger lecturing on Neo-Quenya in Practice.

Idem.

Harm J. Schelhaas leads a discussion on Neo-Quenya.

A most interesting visit to the museum “Plantin-Moetus Prentenkabinet”.

Idem.

Beregond, Anders Stenström gives a new version of his work presented “in progress” at Omentielva Minya on Phonotactic Preferences in the Root Repertories of “The Quenya Lexicon” and “The Etymologies”.

Helge Fauskanger: Identifying the ‘Holes’ in Known Quenya: Neo-Quenya in Practice.

Neo-Quenya — Relevant or Distractive (discussion led by Harm Schelhaas).

Visit to Museum Plantin-Moretus.

Visit to Museum Plantin-Moretus.

Beregond, Anders Stenström: Phonotactic Preferences in the Root Repertories of “The Qenya Lexicon” and “The Etymologies”.

Online Collaboration in Tolkien Linguistics (seminar led by Bertrand Bellet).

Dirk Trappers.

More cooking.

Bill Welden lends a hand in the kitchen.

Bertrand Bellet peeling apples.

Martin Pühringer in the kitchen.

Practical Elvish II (led by Bill Welden).

Practical Elvish II.

Practical Elvish II.

Practical Elvish II.

Practical Elvish II.

Practical Elvish II.

Practical Elvish II.

Karolina Kazimierczak gives a lecture on “Relations between Music and Language in the Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien and in Compositions Inspired by Them”.

Idem.

Dirk Trappers leading a seminar on “Oilima Markirya”.

Johan Vanhecke showing us one of his treasures: A Linguaphone Language Course in which two of the lessons are spoken by Tolkien.

The participants of Omentielva Tatya. Top row left to right: Måns Björkman, Martin Pühringer, Bill Welden. Middle row: Beregond (Anders Stenström), Renée Vink, Julia Reichl, Karolina Kazimierczak, Bertrand Bellet, Dorine Ratulangie, Hedwig Valkiers, Julian Bradfield. Seated: Benct Philip Jonsson, Helge Fauskanger, Valeria Barouch, Dirk Trappers.

Karolina Kazimierczak: Unfolding Tolkien’s Linguistic Symphony: Relations between Music and Language in the Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien, and in Compositions Inspired by Them.

“Oilima Markirya” (seminar led by Dirk Trappers).

“Oilima Markirya” (seminar led by Dirk Trappers).

Pieter Collier: Tolkien Signatures.

Lunch.

Benct Philip Jonsson: Reconstruction and Retro-construction in Tolkien’s Eldarin Languages.

A guided tour of the city: Slot Antwerpen.

The Omentielva Tatya participants. Left to right: Dirk Trappers, Dorine Ratulangie, Renée Vink, Måns Björkman, Bertrand Bellet, Julia Reichl, Helge Fauskanger, Julian Bradfield, Hedwig Valkiers, Harm Schelhaas, Karolina Kazimierczak, Martin Pühringer.