Quettar's aim was described thus on its back cover:
QUETTAR is Quenya, or `High-Elven'. It means `words', and is the bulletin of the Linguistic Fellowship of the Tolkien Society, whose members are referred to as Quendili, which means `lovers of language' or `lovers of Quenya', (though there are some Sindarindili among us). Those who describe themselves as philologists tend to say Lambendili. Feanorian calligraphers are known (perhaps inaccurately) as Tengwardili, runemasters as Certatúri.The languages which principally interest us are those sub-created by J. R. R. Tolkien, including:
Quenya Khuzdul Qenya Adűnaic Sindarin Rohirric Nandorin Wose-speech Wood-Elven Arctic Telerin Black Speech Eldarissa Common Speech / Westron Goldogrin Other Mannish languages This also involves a degree of interest in Finnish, Welsh, Old English and other `real world' languages. We stress `interest'. While expertise is welcome, in order to become a Quendil all you need is love. We trust that knowledge will follow.
Volume I, containing issues 1 to 10 (originally published in 1980 to
1981) is now available.
Note - October 2008: This month, Lulu increased their prices by a considerable amount. One effect is that the coil-binding I chose for Quettar is now much more expensive than simple staple binding for small books. Therefore Quettar Volume I is also available in a cheaper saddle-stitch edition.
Volume II, containing issues 11 to 20 (originally published in 1981 to 1984) is now available. (Volume II is big enough that there's nothing I can to do mitigate the October 2008 Lulu price increase.)
I hope to make Volume III available by the end of December. IV and V will follow in 2009.
If you have a special need for just one or two back issues, please mail me (user back-issues, domain quettar.org), and I'll see what I can do.