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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.
The language names and evolution shown for Middle-earth are as used in the 1937 Lhammas. [6] This was internally consistent, but for one thing. Central to the story was the history of the Noldor. Their language, Noldorin, evolved very slowly in the changeless atmosphere of Valinor. Tolkien had developed its linguistics in some detail.
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." [2] The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that [3] it is important to remember that all of Tolkien's studies, the focus of his profession, was a concentration on the importance of the word.
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 ...
Tolkien stated that he wrote his stories to provide a setting for his languages, rather than the other way around. Tolkien constructed languages for the Elves to sound pleasant, and the Black Speech of the evil land of Mordor to sound harsh; poetry suitable for various peoples of his invented world of Middle-earth ; and many place-names, chosen ...
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] The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that [2] it is important to remember that all of Tolkien's studies, the focus of his profession, was a concentration on the importance of the word.
The language represented in this history by English was the Westron or 'Common Speech' of the West-lands of Middle-earth in the Third Age. In the course of that age it had become the native language of nearly all the speaking-peoples (save the Elves) who dwelt within the bounds of the old kingdoms of Arnor and Gondor ...
Nevertheless, to take the most famous Middle English instance, J.R.R. Tolkien was able to conjecture the AB literary dialect by comparing manuscripts of the Katherine Group ("B") and the Ancrene Wisse ("A"). Drawing on his personal knowledge of Old English and Old Norse, while counting and cataloging thousands of verbs by hand, Tolkien argued ...