The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages
11–14 August 2011
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Valencia, Spain
Chairman: Helios De Rosario Martínez
Secretary: Beregond, Anders Stenström
Guest of honour: Arden R. Smith
Omentielva thanks Sociedad Tolkien Española for a generous grant that allowed us to invite
a guest of honour.
| At Universidad Politécnica de Valencia La Casa del Alumno |
At Residencia Universitaria San José | ||
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| Thursday | 330 p.m. | Opening of the conference Introduction to the programme, and practical information |
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| 430 p.m. | Arden R. Smith: Editing Tolkien's Alphabets | ||
| 530 p.m. | Diego Seguí (in absentia), Helios De Rosario Martínez: Parma Eldalamberon Index Project (report on work in progress) | ||
| 630 p.m. | Beregond, Anders Stenström: Another Look at the Problem of Erukyerme | ||
| 830 p.m. | dinner | ||
| 930 p.m. | Practical Elvish (led by Petri Tikka) | ||
| Friday | early morning | breakfast | |
| 9 a.m. | Elvish Poets' Workshop (led by Valeria Barouch) | ||
| 10 a.m. | Georgia Kyte, Tayah Tailby, Abbie Taylor: Mystery and Magic in Distant Lands: The Names of the Ithryn Luin as Clues to Their Role and Importance | ||
| 1130 a.m. | Bertrand Bellet [via Skype]: Light and Colour in Elvish Languages | ||
| 1230 p.m. | Aleksandar Mikić (in absentia): Orivaine, kamilot, and Their Kindred: Words for Legumes in Tolkien's Invented Languages | ||
| 2 p.m. | lunch | ||
| 430 p.m. | Helge Fauskanger (in absentia): The World's most Evil Syllable | ||
| 530 p.m. | Roman Rausch: Sound Symbolism in Elvish | ||
| 630 p.m. | Petri Tikka: Qenya/Finnish Names in "The Story of Kullervo" | ||
| 830 p.m. | dinner | ||
| 930 p.m. | Elvish Poets' Circle (led by Valeria Barouch) | ||
| Saturday | early morning | breakfast | |
| 9 a.m. | Michael Everson: Tolkien and the Germanic Runes | ||
| 10 a.m. | Arden R. Smith: Phonetic Symbols in Tolkien's Early Alphabetic Materials | ||
| 1130 a.m. | Damien Bador: The Tengwar Full Modes and the Quanta Sarme: A Diachronic Analysis | ||
| 1230 p.m. | Further Towards an Encoding of Tengwar and Cirth in the Universal Character Set (follow-up of our discussion in 2009, led by Michael Everson) | ||
| 2 p.m. | lunch | ||
| 430 p.m. | Ivan Derzhanski: Some Parallels Between Pronouns in J.R.R. Tolkien's and the Real World's Languages | ||
| 530 p.m. | Måns Björkman: Quenya's Participles | ||
| 630 p.m. | Using Tengwar on the Web (seminar led by J. 'Mach' Wust) | ||
| 830 p.m. | festive dinner | ||
| Sunday | 8 a.m. | Ecumenical morning prayer (led by Petri Tikka) | |
| early morning | breakfast | ||
| 930 a.m. | — Walking tour through the old city (led by Juan Gómez), starting outside metro station Xàtiva — | ||
| 12 noon | The Future: we took thought of the Omentielvar in 2013 and 2015 | ||
| 2 p.m. | lunch |