Mount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med “wet head”) rose in the First Age above an important pass through the Blue Mountains, between Beleriand and Eriador.
The great dwarven cities of Gabilgathol [Nogrod in Sindarin] and Tumunzahar [Belegost] were built in its vicinity, to the southeast and northeast respectively.
The Blue Mountains [Ered Lui…[Read more]

Some examples from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish handwriting

Livros de J.R.R. Tolkien publicados no Brasil até agosto de 2020

These runes are known to us only from a slip of paper written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The analysis is in English and Portuguese.

A partial analysis of the Lay written by JRRT in Elvish characters

Tolkien’s mythopoeic sub-creation is characterized by the dimensions of Range, Depth and Time.

J.R.R. Tolkien produced a considerable body of poetry in which he used the traditional alliterative metre of Old Norse and Old English to write modern English verse. This paper reviews three of his longer narrative poems, published in The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún and The Fall of Arthur, examining Tolkien’s alliterative technique in co…[Read more]

Tolkien modeled the relationship between his invented languages Quenya and Sindarin in part on that between Latin and Welsh.

Book review of The Feanorian Alphabet, Part 1; Quenya Verb Structure, by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson and Arden R. Smith.

Book review of Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (2019) by John M. Bowers. Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol9/iss1/3

Book review of Tolkien and Sanskrit (2016) by Mark T. Hooker.

Book review of A Secret Vice (2016) by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.

A defence of the emendation of eorl to Eorle ‘Heruli’ in Beowulf 6a.