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Day 1 - Thursday August 11

Photographer: Helios De Rosario Martínez

Conference opening. Sitting on the left side, from front to rear: Harm Schelhaas, Roman Rausch, (and hidden): Ivan Derzhanski, Mick Ennis, Petri Tikka. On the right side, from front to rear: Michael Everson, Arden Smith, “Beregond” Anders Stenström, Johan Winge, Måns Björkman, Valeria Barouch, Damien Bador, and “Mach” Wust

Arden R. Smith: “Editing Tolkien’s alphabets”

Beregond: “Another Look at the Problem of Erukyerme”

“Practical Elvish”, led by Petri Tikka


Day 2 - Friday August 12

Photographer: Helios De Rosario Martínez

Valeria Barouch: “Elvish Poets’ Workshop”

Mick Ennis introducing Tayah Tailby, Abbie Taylor and Georgia Kyte (sitting from left to right), in the presentation of “Mystery and Magic in Distant Lands: The Names of the Ithryn Luin as Clues to Their Role and Importance”

Beregond reading Aleksandar Mikić’s paper: “Orivaine, kamilot, and Their Kindred: Words for Legumes in Tolkien’s Invented Languages”

Mick Ennis reading Helge Fauskanger’s paper: “The World’s most Evil Syllable”

Participants discussing Helge Fauskanger’s paper. From left to right: Roman Rausch, Petri Tikka, Alberto Aparici, Arden Smith, Måns Björkman, Damien Bador and “Beregond” Anders Stenström

Roman Rausch: “Sound Symbolism in Elvish”

Petri Tikka: “Qenya/Finnish Names in “The Story of Kullervo’”

Elvish Poets’ Circle, led by Valeria Barouch


Day 3 - Saturday August 13

Photographer: Helios De Rosario Martínez

Michael Everson: “Tolkien and the Germanic Runes”

Michael Everson: “Tolkien and the Germanic Runes”

Arden R. Smith: “Phonetic Symbols in Tolkien's Early Alphabetic Materials”

Some of the bibliographic resources that populated the table of the conference room

Damien Bador: “The Tengwar Full Modes and the Quanta Sarme: A Diachronic Analysis”

Climax of the discussion on the encoding of Tengwar in the UCS

Ivan Derzhanski: “Some Parallels Between Pronouns in J.R.R. Tolkien’s and the Real World's Languages”

Måns Björkman: “Quenya’s Participles”

“Mach” Wust showing how to write and read tengwar on the web, in computers without special fonts installed

Festive dinner

Festive dinner

Festive dinner

Festive dinner


Day 4 - Sunday August 14

Photographer: Helios De Rosario Martínez

Walking tour through the old city of Valencia, led by Juan Gómez: visiting the Palace of El Marqués de Dos Aguas