Carl F. Hostetter (born 1965) is a computer scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and the key figure of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. He is the author of numerous articles on Tolkienian linguistics, and the editor of two journals on the subject, Vinyar Tengwar (print) and Tengwestië (online). Hostetter has also contributed to the mailing-lists dedicated to Tolkien's languages, Tolklang and Elfling, and has founded, Lambengolmor, in 2002 and Elfling-d. Together with Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Bill Welden, and Patrick H. Wynne (called by critics and members the "Elfconners"), he has been engaged by Christopher Tolkien in the ordering, editing, and publishing of Tolkien's writings concerning his invented languages. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... NASA logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center. ... The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship (E. L. F.) is an international organization devoted to the scholarly study of the invented languages of J. R. R. Tolkien, headed by Carl F. Hostetter. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916, wearing his British Army uniform in a photograph from the middle years of WW1. ... Vinyar Tengwar is a linguistic journal published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, dedicated to the study of the fictional languages of J. R. R. Tolkien, especially the languages of Elves, Quenya and Sindarin. ... Tolklang is a mailing list dedicated to the languages of J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Elfling is a mailing list dedicated to the languages of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Lambengolmor were the Loremasters of the Elves. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Elfcon (also ELFcon) is short for Elvish Linguistic Fellowship Convention, a convention first proposed by Jorge Quninonez, and then organized and originally hosted by Bill Welden, dedicated to the study of the languages created by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Christopher Reuel Tolkien (born November 21, 1924) is best known as the son of author J. R. R. Tolkien, and as the editor of much of his fathers posthumously published work. ... J. R. R. Tolkien in 1916, wearing his British Army uniform in a photograph from the middle years of WW1. ...

Together with Verlyn Flieger, he is the editor of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle Earth (Greenwood Press, 2000) This article is about the year 2000. ...

External links

• The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship site
• The Vinyar Tengwar site
• The Tengwestië site
• The Lambengolmor list
• The Elfling-d list
• The Tolkien's Legendarium site