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v0.8.9.1 (March 17, 2024)

Version History

v0.8.9 (February 17, 2024)

v0.8.8 (August 12, 2023)

v0.8.7 (June 30, 2023)

v0.8.6 (May 26, 2023)

v0.8.5 (April 28, 2023)

v0.8.4.3 (March 9, 2023)

v0.8.4.2 (Dec 11, 2022)

v0.8.4.1 (October 14, 2022)

v0.8.4 (September 14, 2022)

v0.8.3 (May 15, 2022)

v0.8.2 (March 13, 2022)

v0.8.1 (January 24, 2022)

v0.8.0 (October 20, 2021)

v0.7.9 (April 16, 2021)

v0.7.8 (November 28, 2020)

v0.7.7 (May 29, 2020)

v0.7.6 (March 23, 2020)

v0.7.5 (January 17, 2020)

v0.7.4 (October 25, 2019)

v0.7.3 (July 27, 2019)

v0.7.2 (April 5, 2019)

v0.7.1 (December 28, 2018)

v0.7.0 (November 10, 2018)

v0.6.9 (September 29, 2018)

v0.6.8 (September 5, 2018)

v0.6.7 (August 3, 2018)

v0.6.6 (June 6, 2018)

v0.6.5 (June 2, 2018)

v0.6.4 (May 4, 2018)

v0.6.3 (April 6, 2018)

v0.6.2 (March 10, 2018)

v0.6.1 (February 9, 2018)

v0.6.0 (December 29, 2017)

v0.5.9 (December 9, 2017)

v0.5.8 (November 11, 2017)

v0.5.7 (August 20, 2017)

v0.5.6 (June 23, 2017)

v0.5.5 (April 15, 2017)

v0.5.4 (February 20, 2017)

v0.5.3 (January 15, 2017)

v0.5.2 (April 1, 2016)

v0.5.1 (March 19, 2016)

v0.5.0 (September 19, 2015)

v0.4.9 (August 29, 2015)

v0.4.8 (July 24, 2015)

v0.4.7 (June 5, 2015)

v0.4.6 (May 16, 2015)

v0.4.5 (April 5, 2015)

v0.4.4 (February 28, 2015)

v0.4.3 (February 21, 2015)

v0.4.2 (February 14, 2015)

v0.1.1 (February 1, 2015)

v0.1.0 (January 25, 2015)

Breaking Changes in v0.6.1

In v0.6.1, the Eldamo data model went through a major reorganization. Eldamo has always had two missions: (1) describing what Tolkien wrote about his languages and (2) suggesting which words might be used for new Elvish writing. In v0.6.1, the data was reorganized to better reflect this dual mission.

In particular, prior to v0.6.1, Eldamo had many empty “Sindarin” and “Quenya” entries (with no page references) that were simply placeholders that indicated which Noldorin and (Middle) Qenya words from the 1930s and 1940s might be reasonably used in Neo-Sindarin and Neo-Quenya composition. Most of these entries were removed, leaving only the corresponding Noldorin and Middle Quenya entries. The Sindarin and Quenya languages are now reserved almost exclusively for words that Tolkien himself used for those languages in his later writings (1950s and beyond).

In some cases, previous “Sindarin” and (more rarely) “Quenya” entries were reformations of earlier words to fit the phonetic and conceptual structures of Tolkien’s later languages from the 1950s and beyond. These reformations are now indicated by the “^” marker. Such reformations have been correctly recategorized as Neo-Sindarin (l="ns" or ᴺS.) and Neo-Quenya (l="nq" or ᴺQ.). Since v0.6.1, I started including more neologism, reformations or otherwise, with these ᴺS. and ᴺQ. designations.

The Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin language lists now serve as a suggested list of words to use in new Elvish composition. The Neo-Quenya list includes all published Quenya words created by Tolkien from the 1910s to the 1970s, including “Early Qenya”. Similarly, the Neo-Sindarin list also includes Noldorin and Gnomish words. Words are clearly labeled by language (S., N., G.; Q., ᴹQ., ᴱQ.) so that authors can exclude earlier words if they wish. To help those who want to use only later words, the search page now has a “Later Quenya” and “Sindarin/Noldorin” search option that includes only words from 1930-1973.

Words that remained essentially the same across multiple periods are collapsed into a single entry in the Neo-Eldarin word lists. For example, the Quenya word aha appeared in both the 1940s and 1950s, and is listed as: Q., ᴹQ. aha “rage”. Similarly, the Sindarin word adar appears as: S., N. adar “father”. In the data model these combinations are indicated by the <combine> elements in child <word> elements.

Gloss attributes were also modified in v0.6.1 to include only glosses from the specific time period of the word. Thus, the gloss for Q. mól is “slave”, while ᴹQ. mól has the glosses “slave, thrall”. There is a new @ngloss attribute (neo-gloss) for the Neo-Eldarin entries that has gloss across multiple time periods. Where a specific gloss appears only in an older version of the language, this is also indicated in the @ngloss, as in: Q., ᴹQ. mól “slave, [ᴹQ.] thrall”.

The Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin word lists use the ⚠️ and ⛔️ symbols [⛔️ was removed in v0.6.6 ] to indicate that some words are not recommended for new Elvish compositions, with alternate suggestions if they are available. In the data model, these recommendations are indicated by the <deprecated> element, with a @strong attribute to distinguish ⚠️ (weak) from ⛔️ (strong) recommendations. These “unrecommended words” are only my opinion, and can be ignored if desired. The ⚠️ symbol also appears in glosses for recommendation against using words with certain meanings. Even if there is no <deprecated> element, deleted and unglossed words are still marked ⚠️. Early words (1910-1930) are also marked ⚠️ by default; any “rescued” early words are treated as Neo-Quenya or Neo-Sindarin, even if the form remains unchanged.

People using Eldamo data to populate their own dictionaries will need to make some decisions on how to incorporate these markers. If you want to ignore my deprecation suggestions, simply ignore the <deprecated> element and strip out the ⚠️ symbol from glosses (Unicode Emoji U+26A0 U+FE0F, or XML encoding &#9888;&#65039;). You may also want to pre-process the glosses to combine or strip out older meanings. You may need to make decisions about whether you want to treat Noldorin words as Sindarin, and Middle Qenya words as Quenya. I can’t tell you exactly how you should use the data, but am happy to make suggestions.