Description
"Qenya Noun Structure" consists of 6 texts dating from the 1930s to the early 1950s concerning the declension of nouns in Qenya and the origins of noun stucture in Primitive Quendian and Eldarin. "Declension of Nouns" details the grammar of the Qenya noun, from circa 1931. It describes the formation of stems and suffixes, including Old Qenya and poetic variants, and their development from Common Eldarin. A number of the forms cited are transcribed in the Tengwar as conceived at this time. The declensions discussed include full listings of inflected forms for about 30 nouns, and variations for another 50 or so. "Qenya Declensions" is a series of paradigm tables intended to replace those in the "Declension of Nouns." They reflect further changes in Tolkien's conception of the noun inflexions up to the middle of the 1930s. In three of these the forms are tanscribed in Tengwar, showing developments in the writing system. "Primitive Quendian Structure: Final Consonants" from 1936 connects the distribution of word-final consonants in the primitive language with the etymological origins of the Qenya noun inflexions. An associated text titled just "Nouns" treats the same material starting from Common Eldarin. "Notes for Qenya Declensions" is probably from the early 1940s and was a projected revision of the "Declension of Nouns" subsequent to the changes introduced in the "Qenya Declensions." "Common Eldarin: Noun Structure" from circa 1951 is a revision of the material in "Primitive Quendian Structure and Nouns" describing how the inflexion of nouns in Quenya and the other Eldarin tongues originated in Common Eldarin by combining the base-structures, affixes, and other elements inherited from Common Quendian. The tendency of some noun-stem types to be associated with gender is discussed, along with a more general description of the Eldarin process of contriving personal names. Edited by Christopher Gilson, Patrick H. Wynne and Arden R. Smith.
Details
Publisher - BookVAULT Publishing
Language - English
Paperback
Author(s) - J. R. R. Tolkien
Published Date - January 29 2025
ISBN - 9781836905875
Dimensions - 27.9 x 21.6 x 0.6 cm
Page Count - 110
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