Omentielva

The Omentielva, named fully the "International Conference on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Invented Languages", is a gathering of Tolkien linguists, held in August every two years since 2005. Begun by Bill Welden long after the last "ELFcon", these conferences have taken place throughout Europe (except for the seventh), typically lasting four days. It is occasionally staffed by members of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.

The proceedings of these conferences are found in their Sweden-based journal Arda Philology.

The root of the term omentielva is Quenya for "meeting". The ending -elva is related to the plural possessive "our". Each conference is named with a Quenya ordinal number, beginning with Minya for 'first'.

Gatherings

 * Omentielva Minya - the first conference, held at the University of Stockholm, Sweden in 2005
 * Omentielva Tatya - the second conference, held in Antwerp, Belgium in 2007
 * Omentielva Nelya - the third conference, held in in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England in 2009
 * Omentielva Cantea - the fourth conference, held at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain in 2011
 * Omentielva Lempea - the fifth conference, held at the Arkadia International Bookshop, Helsinki, Finland in 2013
 * Omentielva Enquea - the sixth conference, held at the Greisinger Museum in Jenins, Graubünden, Switzerland in 2015
 * Omentielva Otsea - the seventh conference, held on the campus of California State East Bay near San Francisco in 2017
 * Omentielva Toltëa - the eighth conference, to be held August 1 - 4 at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Iceland