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[Originally authored by Paul Strack in 2026] Introduction The mutation of adjectives in Sindarin and its conceptual precursors is a fairly well established feature of the language. For example, in the Gnomish Grammar of the 1910s, Tolkien said “For the rules o...

[Originally authored by Paul Strack in 2019 and presented at Omentielva Toltea.] Abstract: It is well known that voiced and voiceless spirants frequently developed into vowels in both Sindarin and Noldorin to produce various diphthongs. This paper examines the...

[Originally posted by Ellanto 2025-09-16 on VLDS] What I refer to as a "genitive construct" is the kind of genitive formation characteristic of Semitic (or perhaps Afro-Asiatic) languages on the one hand, and Insular-Celtic languages on the other hand; I am no...

[Originally authored by Paul Strack in 2026 as a draft entry for Eldamo] Overview Soft mutations are a significant feature of Sindarin grammar. Tolkien described their grammatical function at some length in a document referred to as Sindarin Mutations written ...