Re: CHAT: Tolkienian conlangs in the movie [was Re: CHAT: Best/Worst/Missing Scenes in LotR]

Thomas R. Wier scripsit:

> I'm no expert at them;  were they using Quenya, or
> Sindarin?
Sindarin.  Nobody in Middle-Earth has spoken Quenya as a native
speaker for millennia, which is why JRRT calls it "Elven-Latin"
and even uses "c" for /k/ in conscious imitation of Latin,
though he needs both "v" and "w" for /v/ and /w/.

Unfortunately, the bulk of the published materials are about Quenya,
and we know (by "we" I mean the public at large, excluding people who
have privileged access to the JRRT papers) very little about Sindarin
as of the LOTR period.

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