Parma Eldalamberon

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Parma Eldalamberon (Quenya 'The Book of Elven-tongues') is a journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship dedicated to the linguistics of J. R. R. Tolkien's Languages of Middle-earth. It is edited by Christopher Gilson.

Parma was founded in 1971 as a semi-scholarly fanzine devoted to a variety of invented literary languages, published under the auspices of the Mythopoeic Society.

In 1995, with the support of Christopher Tolkien and permission of the Tolkien Estate, Parma was reinvented as a series of standalone volumes publishing in full material from Tolkien's manuscripts relating to languages and scripts. Much of this material was previously unavailable or available only in heavily edited form (for example, selections from the "Gnomish Lexicon" published in full in Parma Eldalamberon #11 were published in the Appendices to The Book of Lost Tales.^[1]).

For a list of material by Tolkien published in Parma Eldalamberon 1995 to date, see Tolkien research.