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

>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/.
Wow, they actually used his languages? Cool; I'd have figured they would
just make some sounds up, but I'm so glad they did that. Even though I
don't know any of them... want to, though!

>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.
Hmm... based on the name alone, I think I'd probably want to learn more
about Sindarin... I just like how "Sindarin" looks... arg, I'm weird like
that, tho... anyways....

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