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The Etymologies is J. R. R. Tolkien's etymological dictionary of his constructed Elvish languages, written during the 1930s.As a philologist, he was professionally interested in the structure of languages, the relationships between languages, and in particular the processes by which languages evolve.
The story of the Elvish languages as conceived by Tolkien from when he began working on The Lord of the Rings is that they all originated from Primitive Quendian or Quenderin, the proto-language of all the Elves who awoke together in the far east of Middle-earth, Cuiviénen, and began "naturally" to make a language.
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.
Old Norse, Tolkien [5] Used by elves and by the riders and other magic users to cast spells. It was the language of the now extinct Grey Folk. One cannot lie in the Ancient Language and one is bound by what one says in it. Ellylon and Hen Llinge (Elder Speech) Andrzej Sapkowski: The Witcher saga: Welsh, Irish, French and English [6] [7 ...
The Quenya language featured prominently in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, as well as in his posthumously published history of Middle-earth The Silmarillion. The longest text in Quenya published by Tolkien during his lifetime is the poem "Namárië"; other published texts are no longer than a few sentences.
Shippey gives as one example Tolkien's statement that he had used such names as Bree, Archet, Combe, and Chetwood for the small area, outside the Shire, where Hobbits and Men lived together. Tolkien selected them for their non-English elements so that they would sound "queer", with "a style that we should perhaps vaguely feel to be 'Celtic'". [6]
The Lhammas (/ˈɬɑmɑs/), Noldorin for "account of tongues", is a work of fictional sociolinguistics, written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937, and published in the 1987 The Lost Road and Other Writings, volume five of The History of Middle-earth series.
[3] (Peter Gilliver presented an earlier account of this period in Tolkien's life to the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, and subsequently published in Mythlore.) [4] Part II: "Tolkien as Wordwright" traces ways in which Tolkien's philology —his love and understanding of words and language—shaped and nourished both his academic and ...