Ósanwe-kenta

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The Ósanwe-kenta or "Enquiry into the Communication of Thought" is a text by J.R.R. Tolkien, written as a typescript of eight pages, probably in 1960, published in Vinyar Tengwar 39 in 1998.

In the framework of the legendarium of Middle-earth, the text is a summary by an unnamed editor of a longer treatise by Pengolodh of Gondolin.

The subject-matter is sanwe-latya (Quenya for "thought-opening", but better translated as "telepathy"). Pengolodh included it as an appendix to the Lhammas because of the implications of tengwesta ("grammar, language") on thought-transmission, i.e. with the development of language, telepathy became more difficult and all but fell out of use among the "incarnated" (those beings with hröa).