Re: Lighting Some Flames: Towards conlang artistry

Michael Poxon scripsit:

> It will always be difficult for conlangers to achieve (should
> they desire it) academic respectability, since it is still invariably bound
> up with what is seen as inferior literature. I remember trying to discuss
> JRRT with one of my professors, who replied haughtily "I don't read such
> books".
Shippey points out in _JRRT: Author of the Century_ that the split between
Tolkien-lovers and Tolkien-haters is basically not between the uneducated
and the educated, but between the generally and the specially educated.
Tolkien-despising has been a self-perpetuating passion among the
English professors (and the literati) for fifty years.

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han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_