Re: Was Tolkien a good conlanger? (was: Re: Good Books)

Shoot!   I shouldn't keep this going, but And wrote:

<<He was working at a time when -- at
least until the last decade of his life -- he would have presumed
(wrongly) that nobody would be interested in his languages and
(rightly) that many would condemn him for wasting his time on
such a frivolous and contemptible pastime instead of doing the
research a professor ought to be doing. That excuses the
incompleteness of the languages, especially the gross inadequacy
of their documentation.>>

You know what?   This is a really, really, really good point that I never
even considered.   So, kudos to you, and I'll remember this every time I look at
Tolkien's languages in the future.

-David