Vinyar Tengwar

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Vinyar Tengwar
"Newsletters"
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Latest editor: Carl F. Hostetter
Latest Issue: 50
Website: Vinyar Tengwar
Publication Information
Publisher: Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
Frequency: Irregular
Format: Paperback (collected volumes)
"It had begun with a leaf caught in the wind, and it became a tree; and the tree grew, sending out innumerable branches, and thrusting out the most fantastic roots."
― Elvish Linguistic Fellowship

Vinyar Tengwar, or VT for short, is a linguistic journal published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, dedicated to the scholarly study of the invented languages of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The name Vinyar Tengwar is a Neo-Quenya rendering of "Newsletters" as a loose compound of the neologism vinyar "news" (a noun plural from vinya "new", compare vanya "fair" and the clan of the Vanyar) and the plural of the word tengwa "letter (of the alphabet)". Its accuracy is disputed, mostly due to the semantic difference between "letter of the alphabet" and "letter, mail, post".[1]

History[edit | edit source]

Vinyar Tengwar first appeared in 1988, at first edited by Jorge Quiñónez and later taken over by Carl F. Hostetter. It appeared in bimonthly intervals at first, but after July 1994, issues appeared more irregularly, roughly once a year. This coincided with the greater frequency of publication of texts written by Tolkien himself; the journal is now dedicated primarily to such texts. Several of these texts were mentioned in volumes of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, but not published in that series owing to their specialist or recondite nature.

All 50 back issues are now collected and published in 5 volumes on print-on-demand.

List of issues[edit | edit source]

The Collected Vinyar Tengwar volume 1

See also[edit | edit source]

External links[edit | edit source]

References

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The Children of Húrin · Beren and Lúthien · The Fall of Gondolin
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Translations and academic works Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo · Finn and Hengest ·
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays · Beowulf and the Critics · Tolkien On Fairy-stories ·
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary · A Secret Vice · The Battle of Maldon
Collected letters and poems The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien · The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
Edited old texts A Middle English Vocabulary · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight · Ancrene Wisse · The Old English Exodus
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Biographies J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography · The Inklings · Tolkien and the Great War
Reference works The Complete Guide to Middle-earth · The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide
Scholarly studies The Road to Middle-earth · The Keys of Middle-earth · The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion ·
The Ring of Words · A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien · Tolkien's Lost Chaucer ·
Tolkien's Library · Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959
Scholarly journals Tolkien Studies · (The Chronology)
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Linguistic journals Vinyar Tengwar various issues · Parma Eldalamberon issue 11-22
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