Vinyar Tengwar

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Vinyar Tengwar is a linguistic journal (ISSN 1054-7606) published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, dedicated to the scholarly study of the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien.

"Vinyar Tengwar" is Quenya for News Letters.

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Vinyar Tengwar first appeared in 1988, at first edited by Jorge Quinonez and later taken over by Carl F. Hostetter. It appeared in bimonthly intervals at first, but after July, 1994, issues appeared more irregularly, roughly once a year. This coincided with the greater frequency of publication of texts written by Tolkien himself; the journal is now dedicated primarily to such texts. Several of these texts were mentioned in volumes of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, but not published in that series owing to their specialist or recondite nature.

#1, September 1988 (12 pp.)
#2, November 1988 (16 pp.)
#3, January 1989 (12 pp.)
#4, March 1989 (12 pp.)
#5, May 1989 (16 pp.)
#6, June 1989 (16 pp.)
#7, September 1989 (16 pp.)
#8, November 1989 (16 pp.)
#9, January 1990 (16 pp.)
#10, March 1990 (24 pp.)
#11, May 1990 (24 pp.)
#12, July 1990 (24 pp.)
#13, September 1990 (24 pp.)
#14, November 1990 (24 pp.)
#15, January 1991 (16 pp.)
#16, March 1991 (16 pp.)
#17, May 1991 (28 pp.)
#18, July 1991 (40 pp.)
#19, September 1991 (32 pp.)
#20, November 1991 (24 pp.)
#21, January 1992 (28 pp.)
#22, March 1992 (32 pp.)
#23, May 1992 (28 pp.)
#24, July 1992 (40 pp.)
#25, September 1992 (28 pp.)
#26, November 1993 (32 pp.)
#27, January 1993 (44 pp.)
#28, March 1993 (40 pp.)
#29, May 1993 (32 pp.)
#30, July 1993 (32 pp.)
#31, September 1993 (36 pp.)
#32, November 1993 (32 pp.)
#33, January 1994 (28 pp.)
#34, March 1994 (36 pp.)
#35, May 1994 (32 pp.)
#36, July 1994 (36 pp.)
#37, December 1995 (32 pp.)
#38, April 1997 (40 pp.)
#39, July 1998 (36 pp.)
#40, April 1999 (36 pp.)
#41, July 2000 (40 pp.)
#42, July 2001 (40 pp.)
#43, January 2002 (40 pp.)
#44, June 2002 (40 pp.)
#45, November 2003 (40 pp.)
#46, July 2004 (36 pp.)
#47, February 2005 (44 pp.)
#48, December 2005 (36 pp.)
#49, June 2007 (60 pp.)

Back issues of the journal are published in collections of ten issues on a per-order basis; issues 1-10, the last to be converted to this format, became available in March 2007.

Libraries that have received the journal and should have back-issues in stock include: