Tyalie Tyelellieva, the Journal

I've used the name Tyalie Tyelellieva for both this website and for the journal which I publish to help people learn Elvish. This particular page is about the journal.

Tyalie Tyelellieva was begun in 1994 to encourage people to write more Elvish poetry, and to help them learn the languages better. It publishes poems and other texts in the Elvish languages and it also includes articles about the languages and alphabets and about technical subjects having to do with Middle-earth. We strongly encourage and are grateful for the many valuable contributions from writers and readers.

The journal was originally published six times a year but has gotten a little erratic since the early days, and it is now published about three times a year. Also, I now have an ISSN number 1539-7238, which is just very exciting for me! (There seems to be some sort of rule that people who publish linguistic journals ought to be stuffy and boring but I am having way too much fun to maintain that pretense.)

The most recent issue was published in December of 2001, and consisted of a linguistic analysis by Helge Fauskanger of J. R. R. Tolkien's translation into Quenya of the Lord's Prayer and Hail Mary. Here is a list of the contents of all the issues published so far.

And it's tears, bitter tears I cry
One of the reasons that I continue to publish on paper is that the subject is linguistics which requires a very heavy use of alternative characters and diacritics, including the International Phonetic Alphabet, foreign fonts like Hebrew, Russian and Greek, and fonts associated with Middle-earth such as the tengwar, cirth and Anglo-Saxon runes. Tolkien was constantly playing with his phonetic notation and to be accurate we have to try to duplicate his notation. And finally, since TT is the "plaything" of linguists, and one of the more peculiar hobbies is translating the Ring Poem into Sumerian and Babylonian and the like, yet another set of fonts is required. Soon there will be more translations of the Ring Poem than of the Lord's Prayer--the traditional subject of study among philologists. All this is impossible on a website (in fact, geocities periodically goes through and sweeps my code into unreadable digraphs--not fun), so Tyalie Tyelellieva will continue to come out on paper. At least that way we can be sure that we are all arguing about the same circumflex.

As always, we encourage participation on every level in Elvish Linguistics, and we are happy to make arrangements to provide the journal to anyone who is interested. For more information on how to obtain it please write or email me at....

Lisa Star
LisaStar@earthling.net

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