I am in the middle of a major overhaul of the Eldamo data model to reflect its new “dual mission” of both (1) describing Elvish as Tolkien wrote it and (2) suggesting possible uses for Neo-Elvish writing.

These changes are big enough to be considered “breaking changes” in the data model, so I wanted to give those who are using Eldamo data for their own online dictionaries a preview of these changes before I release it. In particular, a large number of “Sindarin” and “Quenya” entries are being removed from Eldamo. These are all empty entries that existed solely as means of indicating with Noldorin and (Middle) Quenya might be used in Neo-Sindarin and Neo-Quenya writing. Further details can be found here:

http://eldamo.org/general/version-history.html#v0.6.1

Basically, I am becoming more strict in which words the model says are Sindarin and Quenya words, limiting them (mostly) to words that Tolkien himself included as part of those languages in the 1950s and later.

I will have more to say about how I am organizing Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin, but I need to get further in the reorganization before I am ready to do so. Basically, I think Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin need to be “emergent” properties of the model: derived from the base data rather than incorporated directly into the data itself. That is because there are many ways to define Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin, and I hope the core data model itself can remain sufficiently neutral that it can be still be used as the basis for a variety of approaches to Neo-Quenya and Neo-Sindarin writing.

For a preview of the data model with the empty “Sindarin” and “Quenya” entries removed, see here:

https://github.com/pfstrack/eldamo/tree/master/src/data

If you have questions, please feel free to ask, either here or on github.