An Introduction to Elvish: And to Other Tongues and Proper Names and Writing Systems of the Third Age of the Western Lands of Middle-Earth as Set Forth in the Published Writings of Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

List of Charts Abbreviations and Symbols THE ELDARIN TONGUES QUENYA GRAMMAR & DICTIONARY by Jim Allan The Structure of Quenya — Origin — Sounds & Spelling — The Noun — The Adjective — The Article — Pronouns — Verbs (with Paula Marmor) — Syntax — On Pronouns in Quenya by Bill Welden Quenya–English Dictionary Valinórenna by Björn Fromén SINDARIN GRAMMAR & DICTIONARY by Jim Allan The Structure of Sindarin — Origin — Sounds & Spelling — Consonant Mutation — On the Formation of Plurals in Sindarin by BIll Welden — The Article — Pronouns — Verbs — Syntax Sindarin–English Dictionary ENGLISH–QUENYA/SINDARIN ENTRY INDEX by Nina Carson, Alexandra Tarasovna Kiceniuk, Jim Allan PROTO-ELDARIN VOWELS: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY by Chris Gilson & Bill Welden — Introduction — Short Vowels — Long Vowels — Diphthongs — Vowel Contraction — Final Syllables — Svarabhakti — Acknowledgments — Vowel Summary Chart by Jim Allan PROTO-ELDARIN CONSONANTS by Jim Allan, Chris Gilson & Bill Welden — Before Proto-Eldarin ELVISH LOANWORDS IN INDO-EUROPEAN: CULTURAL IMPLICATIONS by Lise Menn THE CALENDAR OF IMLADRIS by Jim Allan TOLKIEN'S PRONUNCIATION: SOME OBSERVATIONS by Laurence J. Krieg OTHER TONGUES by Jim Allan — Khuzdul — The Black Speech — The Adûnaic Languages — More Obscure Languages PERSONAL NAMES AN ETYMOLOGICAL EXCURSION AMONG THE SHIRE FOLK by Paula Marmor THE GIVING OF NAMES by Jim Allan — The Germanic System of Nomenclature — Elvish Names — Old Rhovanion Names — Hobbit Names — Names of the Rohirrim — Northern Names — The Names of the Early Edain and Old English — Hobbit Month Names WRITING SYSTEMS THE TENGWAR OF FËANOR by Laurence J. Krieg — How to Learn the Tengwar — Tengwar Fact Sheet Notes — Shape-Sound Correspondence: A Supplement THE EVOLUTION OF THE TENGWAR by Jim Allan A SURVEY OF SOME ENGLISH-TENGWAR ORTHOGRAPHIES by Laurence J. Krieg — Orthographic Theories — Tengwar Spelling Systems — Conclusions A PARALLEL TO THE TENGWAR by Jim Allan THE RUNES by Jim Allan — Old English Runes — The Certar or Cirth THE WIELDERS OF THE THREE AND OTHER TREES by Paula Marmor