Behind the Gateway

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:

The First Age
 * Preface
 * List of Abbreviations
 * §1 The History of Sindarin
 * §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

Consonant Mutations
 * §5 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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