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Omentielva Minquea - Programme

Papers (preliminary titles)

• Damien Bador: “On Ælfwine’s Spelling”: An Analysis of Elvish Spelling in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Old English Manuscripts
• Paul Strack: Sindarin Articles and Mutations from Parma Eldalamberon 23
• Paul Strack: Adjectival Mutations in Sindarin
• Roman Rausch: The Embedding Space of Quenya Phonology
• Christopher Gilson: The Last Version of “Oilima Markirya”: Origins and Echoes
• Arden Smith: The History and Development of the Names of the Tengwar
• Marc Zender: Epigraphy, Philology, and the ‘Found Manuscript’ Topos in The Lord of the Rings
• Christopher Gilson: Tolkien and the Abnaki Language

Other programme items

• Practical Elvish (led by Fiona Jallings)
• Elvish Poets’ Circle (led by Christopher Gilson: impromptu contributions will be welcome, but if you already plan to read or sing something, or if you will not attend but will send something to be read, he will be grateful if you contact him)

This page will be updated with more papers and other programme items, and finally a schedule with times.