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The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth.Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens.
As Tolkien stated: The invention of languages is the foundation. The 'stories' were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. To me a name comes first and the story follows. [T 1] Tolkien created scripts for his Elvish languages, of which the best known are Sarati, Tengwar, and Cirth.
The languages have quickly spread in modern-day use. His interest was primarily philological, and he stated that his stories grew out of his languages. [1] The languages were the first thing Tolkien created for his mythos, starting with what he originally called "Qenya", the first primitive form of Elvish.
Gateway to Sindarin: a grammar of an Elvish language from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0874809121. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954a). The Fellowship of the Ring. The Lord of the Rings. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. OCLC 9552942. Tolkien, J. R. R. (1955). The Return of the King. The Lord of the Rings. Boston ...
The first known example of an artificially created Pan-Slavic language. Tutonish: 1901 Elias Molee: The first Pan-Germanic language, later reformed under names like nu teutonish, alteutonik, etc. Romanid: 1956 Zoltán Magyar: A zonal auxiliary language based on the Romance languages. Guosa: 1965 Alexander Igbinéwéká
Podhorodecka concludes that Tolkien's constructed languages were certainly individual to him, but that their "linguistic patterns resulted from his keen sense of phonetic metaphor", so that the languages subtly contribute to the "aesthetic and axiological aspects of his mythology". [21]
Forty-two years ago today on September 2, 1973, the world lost literary great J.R.R. Tolkien, creator of the famed "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" series.
A Secret Vice 2016 critical edition cover Editors Dimitra Fimi Andrew Higgins Author J.R.R. Tolkien Language English Subjects Conlanging, Linguistics, Philology Published 7 April 2016 Publisher HarperCollins Publication place United Kingdom Media type Hardback Pages 300 ISBN 978-0-00-813139-5 "A Secret Vice", also known as "A Hobby for The Home", is a lecture first presented by English ...