Dating Parma Eldalamberon 11 Text Date Source Comment GG : The Gnomish Grammar PE11/7-16 It was written and abandoned before work on the lexicon was completed. GL : The Gnomish Lexicon (pencil) PE11/17-75 The earliest version in pencil, with some ink revisions, largely erased or struck through GL : The Gnomish Lexicon (ink) 1917 PE11/17-75 The primary ink version in the notebook, apparently a fair copy of the earlier pencil entries. GL : The Gnomish Lexicon (crayon) PE11/17-75 The final state of the lexicon, with subsequent changes made in crayon and pencil. Parma Eldalamberon 12 Text Date Source Comment The Qenya Phonology PE12/3-28 QL : The Quenya Lexicon 1915-21/ 1916-24 PE12/29-106 Manwe, Melko, Orome, Ulmo: after PME. PME : Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa 1916/1918 PE12/29-106 after : QL,  The Fall of Gondolin before : the Tuor (B) Tolkien Manuscript S1/ XII, "Notebook B, Being Names to Book of Lost Tales".  Parma Eldalamberon 13 Text Date Source Comment Heraldic Devices of Tol Erethrin (1st) 1916-1917? PE13/94 in the Lost Tales notebooks.  The first device is labelled Taurobel,  which Christopher Tolkien identifies as Great Haywood in Staffordshire, where Tolkien and Edith lived for a while in 1916 to 1917. Heraldic Devices of Tol Erethrin (2nd) 1913-1916? PE13/95 in the Lost Tales notebooks.  The second device is labelled Cortirion, i.e. Kortirion, which Tolkien identifies with Warwick, where Edith lived from 1913 until their marriage in March 1916, and where Tolkien visited her from Oxford .   Heraldic Devices of Tol Erethrin (3rd) 1913? PE13/96 in the Lost Tales notebooks.  The linked rings suggest this refers to Tolkien's reunion with Edith Bratt on January 8, 1913.   Goldogrin Pronominal Prefixes PE13/97 It appears on a narrow strip of paper remaining in the notebook "Lost Tales E'' ( Bodleian Library, Oxford, Tolkien MS S1/ VI (Lost Tales E), folio 54v. ) after a page had been tom out. The full page appears to have contained material on the Goldogrin verb, for the remaining strip bears a list of pronominal prefixes like those employed with verbs cited in the Gnomish Lexicon. Early Chart of Names ~1915/1918 PE13/99 before : PME: F, H, E, A, and R- Y with : QL Tolkien Manuscript S1/ XII, "Notebook B, Being Names to Book of Lost Tales". ONL : The Official Name List PE13/101-105 after : PME GLS : The Gnomish Lexicon Slips 1918-11/1920-06 PE13/108-118 in the Gnomish Lexicon notebook.   ENG : Early Noldorin Grammar PE13/120-132 ENF : Noldorin Word-lists PE13/136-156 These documents belong to the period of the writing of the alliterative  Lay of the Children of Húrin , while Tolkien was at Leeds.   ENF 6 (original) before : ENG? ENF 7 (pencil) after : ENF 6 ENF 3 & 4 (typed) after : ENF 7 ENF 5 (handwritten) after : ENF 3 & 4 ENF 8 (typed) before : ENG, ENF 6, ENF 3 & 4 ENF 10 (typed) after : ENF 8 ENF 11 ENF 12 after : ENF 10 ENF 13 (typed) ENF : Noldorin Dictionary PE13/158-165   Parma Eldalamberon 14 Text Date Source Comment The Creatures of the Earth 1918/1920 PE14/9-10 after : GL, GG with : The Coming of the Valar The Names of the Valar PE14/12-15 Otsan and Kainendan PE14/21-22 Matar and Tulir PE14/23 The Qenya Verb Forms PE14/28-34 Early Qenya Grammar in Manuscript 1923 PE14/41-59 EQG . Early Qenya Phonology PE14/60-70 Early Qenya Grammar in Typescript PE14/71-86 V1: Description of "Valmaric (A)" PE14/98-101 V2: Description of "Valmaric (B)" PE14/103-104 V3: Description of "Qenya Writing" PE14/106-110 V4: Untitled Table PE14/112-113 V5: Description of "Qenyatic: Special Eldarin Usage (Archaic)" PE14/114-115 V6: List of "Parts of the Body" PE14/117 V7: Table of "Valmaric Writing: (1) Old Form" PE14/119 V8: "Beowulf in Qenyatic" and Lord's Prayer Excerpt PE14/120-121 V9: Title of "The Book of Scripts" PE14/124 V10: Untitled Table PE14/126-127 V11: Untitled Table PE14/129 V12: Untitled Table PE14/131-132 V13: Untitled Table PE14/133 Parma Eldalamberon 15 Text Date Source Comment Names and Required Alterations PE15/7-18 Text I PE15/12 Text II PE15/13 Text III PE15/14 Text IV PE15/14 Text V PE15/15 Text VI PE15/15 Text VII PE15/15-16 Text VIII PE15/16 Text IX PE15/16-17 Text X PE15/17 Text XI PE15/18 Text XII PE15/18 Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin PE15/20-28 NFG . Unnamed list PE15/29 Sí Qente Feanor PE15/32 Early Qenya Pronouns PE15/41-58 Table A PE15/44 Table B PE15/47 Table C PE15/50 Table D PE15/52 Table E PE15/53 Table F PE15/54 Table G PE15/54 Table H PE15/57 Index of Names for The Lay of the Children of Húrin PE15/61-64 English-Qenya Dictionary PE15/67-80 EQD . Addendum to The Alphabet of Rúmil and The Valmaric Script PE15/85-88   PE15/86 RV1a .   PE15/88 RV1b . Early Runic Documents PE15/89-121 Enʒlaʒesíþ PE15/94-97 ER1 . Tables of New English and Normalized Old English Runes PE15/102-104 ER2 . Table of "Waldemars Runen" and Gothic and Old English Letters PE15/106 ER3 . Table of "Gnomic Letters" PE15/108-109 ER4 . Table of "Gondolinic Runes" PE15/111 ER5 . Table of "Gondolinic Runes" (Script Variety) PE15/112 ER6 . Table of "Runic" with Beowulfand Wanderer Excerpts PE15/114-116 ER7 . Table of Runes with Modern English Names PE15/120 ER8 . Parma Eldalamberon 16 Text Date Source Comment Description of "Qenyatic" with Narqelion Excerpt PE16/14-16 PF1 Narqelion Doodles PE16/18 PF2 Untitled Table PE16/20-21 PF3 Table of "Qenya Simplex" PE16/22 PF4 Table of "Falassin" with Doodles PE16/24-25 PF5 Table of "Falassin 2" PE16/27-29 PF6 Table of "Falassin" with Doodles PE16/30-31 PF7 Untitled Table PE16/33 PF8 Untitled Table with Doodles PE16/34 PF9 Narqelion Excerpts with Fragmentary Table PE16/36 PF10 Doodles and Aeneid Excerpts PE16/38 PF11 Description of "Noriac" PE16/40-42 PF12 Description of "Banyaric (English)" PE16/43-44 PF13 Description of "English Sinyatic" PE16/45-47 PF14 Samples of "Banyaric," "Sinyatic," and "Noriac" PE16/48 PF15 Untitled Table of a Banyaric-Type Alphabet PE16/50-51 PF16 Oilima Markirya PE16/56 OM1a Oilima Markirya PE16/57 OM1b Oilima Markirya PE16/60 OM1c Oilima Markirya PE16/62 OM1d Oilima Markirya PE16/68 LA1a Oilima Markirya PE16/69 LA2a Oilima Markirya PE16/70 LA2b Oilima Markirya PE16/71 LA2c Oilima Markirya PE16/72 OM1e Oilima Markirya PE16/74-75 OM1f Oilima Markirya PE16/77 OM1g Oilima Markirya PE16/80   Variant Readings of Version OM2a PE16/81   Nieninqe PE16/90 N1a Nieninqe PE16/92 N1b Variant Readings of Version N1c PE16/95   Nieninqe PE16/96 N2 Earendel PE16/100 E1a Earendel PE16/104 E1b Qenya Declensions (Version 1) PE16/111   Qenya Declensions (Version 2) PE16/112   Qenya Declensions (Version 3) PE16/113-115   Qenya Conjugations (Version 1) PE16/124   Qenya Conjugations (Version 2) PE16/125-126   Qenya Conjugations (Version 3) PE16/127-128   Qenya Word-lists PE16/132-148 Parma Eldalamberon 17 Text Date Source Comment Comparative in Eldarin 1959-12/1962 PE17/90 Comparative in Eldarin, with various etymological notes 1959-12/1962 PE17/90 after: Comparative in Eldarin Words published (1) 1959-12/1960-05 WP1 . This list seems to be earlier than "Words, Phrases and Passages". Words published (2) 1959-12/1960-05 WP2 . A list of Quenya words without names, which extends "as far as end of Vol. Il," according to Tolkien's annotation at the end of the list. This list seems to be earlier than "Words, Phrases and Passages". Words, Phrases and Passages in various tongues 1959-12/1960-05 WPP . after: Words published Collection of Etymological Notes: Beautiful 1959-12/1960 PE17/150 A group of etymologies under the heading "Beautiful" on a pair of sheets that Tolkien pinned together, and placed with a group of loose sheets probably connected with the essay Quendi and Eldar.   with Words Published (1) before Words, Phrases and  assages in various tongues Collection of Etymological Notes: Stems for 'flower' and 'snow' 1959-12/1960 PE17/160 PE17/153 PE17/146 These etymological notes are on two sheets pinned together by Tolkien, which contain notes on roots whose derivatives have to do with flowers, colors and growth. The sheets were placed between the "Beautiful" group of etymologies and the "Definitive Linguistic notes".   after Collection of Etymological Notes: Beautiful Collection of Etymological Notes: Dwarf 1959 PE17/45 This note is on the back of a list of prefixes meaning 'back' and was placed immediately following the list of roots dated "Dec. 59".  Collection of Etymological Notes: Prefixes 1959 PE17/167 These notes are on the back of the page with the note on Dwarf Collection of Etymological Notes: (Neck) 1959-12/1962 PE17/146 This note is on the back of the earlier of two notes on the Comparative in Eldarin, a draft of the etymological explanation of Achad Tarlang. Collection of Etymological Notes: Stems 1959-12 PE17/158 A list of several etymologies written in ball-point with the heading "Stems" on a sheet which Tolkien dated "Dec. 59" using the back of a printed memo for a college meeting on "Tuesday 21 June" of 1955.   The list includes √RIG- 'twine'; √WIRI 'weave'; √WAYA 'blow'; √LĀ-; √PHŌ/Ū; √PĂTH/PAS- 'smooth'; and √ȜĂN, YĂN 'extend'. The front of the memo also has four etymologies in the blank areas, one (√SRĀ, SRAGA 'awkward') in ball-point and three (√THAR- 'vigour', √PHEN- 'door' and √PAR- 'peel') written with a nib-pen, the latter presumably on a different occasion, but probably not long before or after the rest of the list. Selection of recent notes on Quenyar especially those making or suggesting new elements of vocabulary 1966 PE17/17 L. R. Etym. notes (1) 1959/1965-06 PE17/65 PE17/168-169 PE17/181 L. R. Etym. notes (2) 1965-06 PE17/65 after L. R. Etym. notes (1) Silvan Folk, waybread and Galadriel 1967/1968 PE17/60 A typed sheet which was placed immediately following the discussion of √PHAN 'cover, screen, veil'. RGEO (draft) PE17/76 This is apparently a preliminary draft of the explanation of the metre of  Namárie that was included in "Notes and Translations", published in The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle, 1967, pp. 60-1. The statement that there is an anapæst in line 3 shows that this draft post-dates the decision to change the word vánier to avánier in that line, one of the revisions of the poem to appear in the 2nd edition of The Lord ofthe Rings. Quenya Notes 1957-09/1957-10 PE17/145 A collection of papers, placed immediately following the Draft list of "Words, Phrases and Passages," the first sheet dated "Sep., Oct. 1957." Two of the other pages bear the date "Sep. 1957," while the notes on a half-sheet included with them are on the back of a letter dated 16 July 1957. Most of this collection is etymological notes listed by root, but there are also six pages of "Phonological notes" on the development of consonant clusters in Quenya and Sindarin.   The first group of longer etymologies includes √MAY 'make'; √AYA-N 'treat with awe'; √MAG; √MAN 'good'; √AS- 'warmth'; √AR 'beyond'; ADA; and √ANA/NA 'to(wards)'. A sheet with short etymologies has √STOL 'helmet'; √LOK- 'bend'; √PHAW- 'emit' ; √LAY-; √KEWE-; √SLOY-; √NEK­ 'deprive'; √TAN- 'indicate'; √TEN- 'direction'; √KOL- 'bear'; √NEN 'water'; √MOT- 'fen'; √LĬNĬ 'pool'; SEREK- 'blood'; and (U)RUI> 'anger'. Other etymologies in the bundle are √SAT||SATAR 'faithful' ; √SRIT 'to complete a work or design'; √DEL; WAL- 'emotion' ; IN-I-D 'mind'; and a short list called "Lang. notes" with √GWAL- 'be stirred'; √WIS- 'alter'; and √RON- 'solid'. Changes affecting 'Silmarillion' nomenclature 1959 PE17/43 A group of pages clipped together by Tolkien. Some linguistic notes on Galadriel's Song 1955/1959~ PE17/61 PE17/67 PE17/75 NGS . before Quendi and Eldar Letter to W. R. Matthews 13-06-1964/ 15-06-1964 PE17/12, 136 This is from the carbon copy of a letter to Mr. W. R. Matthews (dated 13-15 June 1964), which Tolkien placed in the same file with the manuscript of "Words, Phrases and Passages." For including in Quenya 1964-07-16 PE17/77 PE17/114 PE17/156 These sheets are gathered with NGS. The first is dated July 16, 1964, and labelled "For including in Quenya." Draft letter to David Masson 1955 PE17/40 Masson .   An 8-page draft of a letter to Mr. David Masson, a librarian at the University of Leeds, with whom Tolkien corresponded in 1955 and later in 1968. The letter clearly dates  from 1955, since Tolkien cites from the 1st edition text of Galadriel's Song. Parma Eldalamberon 18 Text Date Source Comment Tengwesta Quenderinwa (1) 1937-09~/ 1937-12~ Tengwesta Quenderinwa (2) 1950/1951 before Grey Annals Parma Eldalamberon 19 Text Date Source Comment Outline of Phonetic Development 1937/1951? OP1 . Outline of Phonology (original) 1951/1952 OP2 . Outline of Phonology (red emendations 1) 1951/1955~ after Outline of Phonology (original) Outline of Phonology (green emendations) 1970 Outline of Phonology (red emendations 2) 1970/1973 after Outline of Phonology (green emendations) Parma Eldalamberon 21 Text Date Source Comment Primitive Quendian Structure 28-04-1936 PE21/55 This title was written as "PQuendian Structure" in the manuscript and above it to the right (also in ink) a date: "Apr. 28. 36." Parma Eldalamberon 22 Text Date Source Comment Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (1, original) 1945~/1948 Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (1, emendations) 1950~ Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (2, original) 1950/1951 after: Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (1, emendations) Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (2, marginal notes) 1950/1951 after Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (2, original), before Grey Annals Common Eldarin Verbal Structure (2, emendations) 1951/1953~ after Grey Annals LVS 1: Some notes for re-ordering and fixing of Q 1969-04-06 PE22/147 VT49/28 after LVS2 LVS 2: Irregular verbs 1969-01/1969-04   LVS 3 1969-01/1969-04   LVS 4: Eldarin 1969-03/1969-06 after LVS 1   LVS 5: Have 1969-03/1969-06 PE22/151 after LVS 1   LVS 6: Notes on verb and treatment of -w- in Q. & S. 1969-03/1969-06   LVS 7: Verbal adjectives 1969-03/1969-06 PE22/153 after LVS 8   LVS 8 1969-03/1969-06   LVS 9 1969-03/1969-06   LVS 10: Verbs 1969-06/1969-09   LVS 11: Vocabulary notes 1969-03/1969-06   LVS 12 1969-06-05/1973   LVS 13: Question of the expression of Negation 1969-09/1969-11 PE22/160 This is a typescript clipped together with the manuscript of LVS 14 and enclosed in a newspaper dated October 9, 1969 .   LVS 14: Will, shall and the 'future' 1969-09/1969-11 PE22/165   Quenya Verbal System 1948/1949 QVS . Parma Eldalamberon 23 Other texts Text Date Source Comment Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (original) 1969-03/1969-09 Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 1) 1969-03/1969-09 after Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (original) Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 2) 1969-03/1969-09 after Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 1) The Feanorian Alphabet (A) 1936/1945 PE22/9-41 The Feanorian Alphabet (A′) 1940/1945 PE22/42-53 after The Feanorian Alphabet (A) The Feanorian Alphabet (B) 1940/1950 after The Feanorian Alphabet (A′) The Feanorian Alphabet (C) 1940/1950 after The Feanorian Alphabet (B) Ambidexter Sentence (1) 1969-08 after Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 2) Ambidexter Sentence (2) 1969-08 after Ambidexter Sentence (1) Ambidexter Sentence (3) 1969-08 after Ambidexter Sentence (2) Ambidexter Sentence (4) 1969/1970 after Ambidexter Sentence (3) Ambidexter Sentence (5) 1969/1970 after Ambidexter Sentence (4) Ambidexter Sentence (6) 1969/1970 after Ambidexter Sentence (5) Ambidexter Sentence (7) 1969/1970 after Ambidexter Sentence (6) Prayers: Ataremma (1) 1950~/1952 Prayers: Aia María (1) 1950~/1952 after Ataremma (1) Prayers: Ataremma (2) 1950~/1952 after Aia María (1) Prayers: Ataremma (3) 1950~/1952 after Ataremma (2) Prayers: Aia María (2) 1950~/1952 after Ataremma (3) Prayers: Ortírielyanna 1950~/1952 after Aia María (2) Prayers: Litany of Loretto 1950~/1952 after Ortírielyanna Prayers: Ataremma (4) 1950~/1952 after Litany of Loretto Prayers: Ataremma (5) 1955~/1959 Prayers: Aia María (3) 1955~/1959 after Ataremma (5) Prayers: Ae Adar Nín 1955~/1959 after Aia María (3) Prayers: Ataremma (6) 1955~/1959 after Ae Adar Nín Prayers: Aia María (4) 1955~/1959 after Ataremma (6) Prayers: Alcar i Ataren 1955~/1959 after Aia María (4) Variation D/L in Common Eldarin 1969-03/1969-09 after Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 2) Unnamed: Rough Notes 1969-03/1969-09 VT47/4 Several pages of rough notes on finger-names and numerical stems.   before Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (original) , acc. to VT47/26 Unnamed: Text on reflexives 1969-09?/1970 VT49/15 The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor 1969-06/1969-09 This historical and etymological essay, titled only "Nomenclature" by its author, belongs with other, similar writings that Christopher Tolkien has dated to c. 1967-69 (XI1:293-94), including Of Dwarves and Men , The Shibboleth of Feanor , and The History of Galadriel and Celeborn . Quendi and Eldar 1959/1960 Notes on Names 1957/1959~ before Quendi and Eldar Monosyllabics in C.E. 1969-03/1969-06 VT47/35 A single-page text, written on the verso of an Alien & Unwin publication notice dated Jan.-Feb. 1968. This was not placed with HFN but seems to be working notes for the discussion of "old monosyllabic nouns" in HFN. Like the note on -ye 'and' on the recto of the same sheet, "Monosyllabics in C.E." was hastily jotted in ballpoint pen, and not all of it can be deciphered with certainty.   with Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (original) Late Essay on Negation: Notes on translation of 'can, may', etc 1969-03~/ 1969-06~ Koivienéni Sentence 1937/1941 Homophonic stems 1969-04/1972 The Etymologies 1936/1937-11 LR/341 Linguistic Notes on BBC script: Hand Words (1) 1969-03/1969-09 VT48/11 The linguistic notes found in association with The Shibboleth of Feanor and The Problem of Ros  provide a brief account of the Quenya fractions 1-12.   after: Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals (revision 1) Linguistic Notes on BBC script: Hand Words (2) 1969-03/1969-09 VT48/11 after: Hand Words (1) Linguistic Notes on BBC script: Quenya Fractions 1968-11/1970 VT47/18 Found in association with The Shibboleth of Feanor and The Problem of Ros are several pages of linguistic notes, written primarily on pages from a script of the BBC radio adaptation of The Hobbit (aired in Sept.-Nov. 1968), and so from the same general time period as HFN . Inscriptions: NEA   Inscriptions: NLL 1969-09-13 The sheet immediately following NEA 2a bears another Quenya well-wishing from 1969, which Tolkien describes at the top of the sheet as an "Inscription (on stick-in label) with signature, sent to Dr. & Mrs. Johnson, Dept. of Psychology, Univ. of B'ham. Sept. 13, 1969". Merin Sentence 1955/1959 Definitive Linguistic Notes Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta 1959/1960 VT41/5 Etymological notes, clearly associated with the c. 1959-60 essay Ósanwe-kenta , found separated from the essay among a bundle of papers. Beside their obvious association in content, they are located among papers that predominately date from the late 1950s, including, for example, a draft typescript fragment of the essay Quendi and Eldar , which also dates from c. 1959-60.