Re: history of conlanging (aka Conlang influences, aka Lest darkness fall)

And Rosta wrote:
>
> Me, I read The Hobbit & LotR before I started inventing ur-Livagian,
> though it is possible that it was something by Tolkien that started me
> on inventing scripts. But what started me on inventing a language was a
> burgeoning interest in English grammar and phonology and phonetics
> combined with having the sort of mind that cannot study anything
> without inventing a counterpart of it. Criminally, my childhood copy
> of LotR omitted the appendices; I discovered these in my mid-teens,
> with great joy (and great disgust at having formerly been cheated of
> them). So it wasn't Tolkien that got me into conlanging, but it was
> Tolkien that got me into Conlang (the story of which I have told
> here enough times before).
>
        My childhood copy of LotR also lacked the appendices. It was a copy for
children and the appendices were certainly considered to technical for
them (that's certainly completely false, but say that to editors who
want to save money buy selling less paper!). In fact, I never read the
appendices at all. When I'm back in France, I buy an original copy of
LotR with the appendices. I saw new editions released that seemed very
good.

> --And.
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