The International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages
1–4 August 2019
University of Iceland
and Gröndalshús,
Reykjavik
Chairman: Miriam Mayburd
Secretary: Beregond, Anders Stenström
Treasurer: Bill Welden
Omentielva thanks Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature for generously sponsoring us with the free use of Gröndalshús as an atmospheric programme venue.
| At the University of Iceland | At Gröndalshús | At Capital-Inn Hostel | ||
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| Thursday | 4 p.m. | Opening of the conference Introduction to the programme, and practical information |
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| 430 p.m. | Szymon Pindur: The One Ring Verse: A Psycholinguistic Approach | |||
| 630 p.m. | dinner | |||
| 8 p.m. | Miriam Mayburd: Chairman's Address | |||
| 830 p.m. | Aiya Arcastar lambengolmoron ancalima! : Capturing the Light from the Brightest of Philologists (panel conversation with Szymon Pindur, held by Christopher Gilson) | |||
| Friday | from 7 a.m. | breakfast — bus from Kringlan 8:21 |
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| 840 a.m. | Bertrand Bellet: How European is Elvish? A Typological Survey of Quenya and Sindarin Based upon the World Atlas of Language Structures | |||
| 940 a.m. | Christopher Gilson: “Unrecorded” Germanic: An Art-language for England | |||
| 1040 a.m. | Alexander Zapryagaev (in absentia): Nómessen Lúmessenye Veryandion: On the “in front/at back”, “before/after” Relationships in Eldarin | |||
| 1140 a.m. | Ármann Jakobsson: Welcome to a Tolkien-reader's Iceland | |||
| 1230 a.m. | lunch | |||
| 130 p.m. | Tour to see Icelandic manuscripts and unpublished letters by Tolkien, led by Miriam Mayburd; | |||
| – 530 p.m. | when back from the tour, time to air any remaining questions on the morning's papers | |||
| 630 p.m. | dinner | |||
| 8 p.m. | Practical Quenya (led by Janna Carleson) | |||
| Saturday | breakfast — bus from Kringlan 8:38 |
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| 9 a.m. | Beregond, Anders Stenström: Phonotactic Preferences Revisited Again (work in progress) | |||
| 10 a.m. | Roman Rausch (in absentia): Rank-frequency Distributions of Phonemes in Natural and Constructed Languages (Elvish, Esperanto, Klingon, Na'vi, Dothraki) | |||
| 11 a.m. | Paul Strack: Vocalization of Spirants in Sindarin and Noldorin | |||
| 12 a.m. | Tsukusu Jinn Itó (in absentia): An Onomastic Observation of the Names for Melkor | |||
| 1245 p.m. | lunch | |||
| 2 p.m. | Måns Björkman: Almost Certainly Almaida: An Investigation of Númenor's Lost City-name | |||
| 3 p.m. | Obscure Names in Elvish (seminar led by Beregond) | |||
| 4 p.m. | John Garth (in absentia): Shorthand Signalling: A New Source for Tengwar? | |||
| 5 p.m. | Eldamar — A Pan-script Font (report by Måns Björkman) | |||
| 630 p.m. | festive dinner | |||
| 8 p.m. | Elvish Poets' Circle (led by Petri Tikka) | |||
| Sunday | breakfast — checkout before 11 a.m. | |||
| 1245 a.m. | lunch | |||
| 2 p.m. | The Future: we will take thought of the Omentielvar in 2021 and 2023 | |||
| 3 p.m. | ------- ------- | (End of Omentielva Toltea) | ------- ------- |