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presentation. On a minimal basis, the Sindarin words shall be presented with their definition
(either a translation or an explanation), their grammatical role (part of speech), and the textual
references (books and pages where the word is mentioned). For a pertinent use, cognate entries
and inflected forms shall be related to each other. Probable misreadings should be corrected and
mentioned to the reader. Additionally, information not indicated by Tolkien himself but derived
from his own presentation of the language would make an highly valuable contribution to the
study of the Sindarin language. Among these improvements, phonetics, hypothetical forms and
deduced words 9 may be listed. All these things I have tried to include in the following pages,
in hope that they will be useful to all readers and students of the linguistic inventions of J.R.R.
Tolkien.
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9. For instance, the word *gwathren ‘shadowy’ (plural *gwethrin) is not attested in the sources, but can be deduced
from gwath ‘shadow’ and Ered Wethrin ‘Shadowy Mountains’ (where the loss of the initial /g/ is due to
the lenition phenomenon already mentioned above).
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