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Etymologies is the first, and indeed only, chapter of the 'Part
Three' of The Lost Road and Other Writings. In his preface to
that volume, Christopher Tolkien describes The Etymologies as "a
kind of historical dictionary", and associates the work with the
years 1937-1938, prior to his father's work on The Lord of the
Rings. In The Etymologies, Tolkien provides a series of Elvish
linguistic root syllables, or "bases". He then shows how each
base evolved into various words in the various Elvish languages,
primarily Qenya and Noldorin, but also about ten other
variations. Although the derived words cannot necessarily be
said to be in their final forms, as Tolkien's invented languages
continued to evolve throughout his life, as Christopher Tolkien
points out, this documen