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1 BOOK
parma (writings), also attested with suffixes: parmastanna “upon [-nna] your [-sta, dual] book”. BOOK LANGUAGE (=Quenya) parmalambë; *BOOK-FAIR \#parma-resta (attested with suffixes: parma-restalyanna *”upon your book-fair”; see FAIR \#2 for further discussion). –PAR/UT:219, 460, LT2:346, VT49:39, 47 -
2 BARK
(noun) – Tolkien originally thought that parma "book" really meant "skin, bark; parchment", with "book, writings" as the secondary meaning. But in Etym parma is derived from a stem meaning "compose, put together", obsoleting the old etymology. –LT2:346, contrast PAR
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