Elvish Linguistic Fellowship

The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (E.L.F.) is an organization devoted to the scholarly study of the invented languages of J.R.R. Tolkien, headed by Carl F. Hostetter. It had been founded in 1988 as a Special Interest Group of the Mythopoeic Society. The E.L.F. publishes two print journals, Vinyar Tengwar, edited by Hostetter, and Parma Eldalamberon, edited by Christopher Gilson; an online journal, Tengwestië, edited by Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne, also sponsoring the Lambengolmor mailing list.
==History==
In 1992, Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien, appointed an editorial group consisting of the chief editors and scholars of the E.L.F. to order, edit, and then publish his father's writings concerning his invented languages, working from photocopies of the materials sent to them over the course of the next decade and from notes taken by the group's members in Tolkien manuscript archives. It was agreed by all parties that it was best to proceed chronologically, as Tolkien's writings are often enough fully explicable only in light of his earlier writings, and sufficiently dependent on them for their context (both in internal and external terms). This main course of publication is being carried out in the journal Parma Eldalamberon. There are, however, some writings that are largely independent, and/or whose context has been sufficiently established by Christopher Tolkien's own chronological publication efforts in The History of Middle-earth, and so do not have to be presented in the normal chronological flow of the larger project. These materials are now being published in the journal Vinyar Tengwar.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Elfen Linguistiese Vereniging
Albanian 	Kompania e gjuhës Elven
Armenian 	Էլֆերեն լեզվի ընկերություն
Assamese 	এলভেন লিংগুৱেষ্টিক ছ'চাইটি
Azerbaijani 	Elf Linqvistik Qardaşlıq
Belarusian Cyrillic	Эльфійскі Лінгвістычнае Братэрства
Bengali 	এলভেন লিঙ্গুইস্টিক সোসাইটি
Bosnian 	Kompanija za vilenjački jezik
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Елфическо лингвистично общество
Catalan 	Germanor Lingüística Elfica
Chinese 	精灵语言兄弟会
Croatian 	Vilenjačkog jezičnog društva
Czech 	Jazykové bratrstvo elfů
Danish 	Fællesskabet af den Elver Lingvistik
Dutch 	Elven Taalkundige Broederschap
Estonian 	Elfisarnane lingvistiline Vennaskond
French 	Fraternité Linguistique Elfiques
Galician 	Compañía Lingüística Èlfica
Georgian 	ელფი ლინგვისტური საძმო ?
German 	Gemeinschaft der elbischen Linguistik
Greek 	Ξωτικό Γλωσσική Αδελφότητα
Gujarati 	એલ્વેન ભાષાકીય બ્રધરહુડ
Hungarian 	Tünde Nyelvi Testvériség
Italian 	Compagnia Linguistica Elfica
Japanese 	エルフ言語同胞団
Kannada 	ಎಲ್ವೆನ್ ಭಾಷಾ ಸಹೋದರತ್ವ
Korean 	엘프 언어 형제단
Latvian 	Elfu Lingvistiskā Brālība
Norwegian 	Samfunn av Alviske Lingvistikk
Portuguese 	Fraternidade Lingüística Élfica
Punjabi 	ਏਲੇਵਨ ਭਾਸ਼ਾਈ ਭਾਈਚਾਰਾ
Romanian 	Elfilor Frăția Lingvistică
Russian 	Эльфийское Лингвистическое Братство
Sinhalese 	එල්වන් භාෂාමය සහෝදරත්වය
Slovak 	Elf lingvistické bratstvo
Slovenian 	Vilinski Jezikovno Bratstvo
Spanish 	Hermandad Lingüística Elfica
Swedish 	Gemenskap av Alviska Språkvetenskap
Tamil 	எல்வ மொழியியல் பெல்லோஷிப்
Thai 	บริษัท ภาษาเอลฟ์
Turkish 	Elfçe Dilbilim Kardeşliği
Turkmen 	Elwen Dil Kärhanasy
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Ельфів Лінгвістичний Братство
Urdu 	ایلوین زبان کی کمپنی
Yiddish 	עלווען שפּראַך פירמע
== External links ==
*E. L. F. website
*Parma Eldalamberon
*The Vinyar Tengwar site
*The Tengwestië site
*The Lambengolmor list
*Concise explanation of the editorial team's makeup and policies by Bill Welden
Category:Tolkien Linguistics