Behind the Gateway

From Tolkien Languages

This category is for organizing and cataloging comments and corrections keyed to the sections of David Salo's A Gateway to Sindarin (Univ. of Utah Press, 2004).

Sections:

• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• §1 The History of Sindarin

The First Age

• §1.1 The Lindai
• §1.2 The Sindar in Beleriand
• §1.3 The Noldor
• §1.4 The Edain
• §1.5 The end of the First Age

The Second Age

• §1.6 The Eldar in Beleriand
• §1.7 The migrations of the Sindar of Doriath
• §1.8 The migrations of the Noldor
• §1.9 Númenor

The Third Age

• §1.10 The kingdoms of the Elves
• §1.11 The kingdoms of Men
• §1.12 The end of the Third Age
• §1.13 Timeline

• §2 The Sounds of Sindarin

• §2.1 Sounds found in Classical Sindarin
• §2.2 Syllable divisions
• §2.3 Light and heavy syllables
• §2.4 Open and closed syllables
• §2.5 Stress accent
• §2.6 Long consonants
• §2.7 Sounds found in Middle Sindarin or Sindarin dialects
• §2.8 Sounds found in Old Sindarin
• §2.9 Sounds found in Common Eldarin

• §3 Sindarin Writing Systems

• §3.1 The Certhas Daeron
• §3.2 The mode of Beleriand
• §3.3 The alphabetic mode of Gondor
• §3.4 The consonantal mode of Gondor

• §4 Historical Phonology of Sindarin

• §§4.1–6 Changes Preceding Common Eldarin
• §§4.7–21 Early Changes in Common Eldarin
• §§4.22–32 Lindarin Changes
• §§4.33–77 Changes in Sindarin Only
• §§4.78–115 Old Sindarin to Middle Sindarin
• §§4.116–67 Sandhi Changes
• §§4.168–215 Middle Sindarin to Classical Sindarin
• §§4.216–20 Postclassical Sindarin
• §§4.221–48 Sound Changes in Sindarin Dialects

• §5 Mutations

Consonant Mutations

• §5.1 The soft mutation
• §5.2 The nasal mutation
• §5.3 The stop mutation
• §5.4 The liquid mutation
• §5.5 The mixed mutation
• §5.6 Medial mutations

Vowel Mutations

• §§5.7–8 The a-affection
• §5.9 The i-affection

• Primary final affection
• Primary internal affection
• Secondary affection

• §5.10 Double affection
• §5.11 Ablaut

• §6 Nouns

• §6.1 The genitive
• §§6.2-11 Plurals
• §6.2 Vowel mutation plurals

Unusual i-final plurals

• §6.3 -h plurals
• §6.4 -u plurals
• §6.5 Double affection plurals
• §6.6 Defective singulars

• §6.7 Suffix plurals

• §6.8 -in plurals
• §6.9 -ath plurals
• §6.10 -rim, -hoth, and -waith

• §6.11 The dative
• §6.12 The accusative
• §6.13 The vocative

• §7 Adjectives
• §8 Pronouns
• §9 Verbs
• §10 Adverbs, Prefixes, and Prepositions
• §11 Conjunctions
• §12 The Article
• §13 Interjections
• §14 Word Formation
• §15 Compound Words and Names
• §16 Loanwords in Sindarin
• §17 Syntax
• App. 1 Extant Texts in Sindarin
• App. 2 A Sindarin-English Glossary
• App. 3 Eldarin Roots
• App. 4 An English-Sindarin Glossary
• App. 5 Sindarin Names
• App. 6 Miscellanea
• Glossary of Linguistic Terms
• Annotated Bibliography
• Addendum

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