Re: CHAT reformed Gaelic
| From: | Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 3:34 |
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In a message dated 12/9/2003 1:04:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
thomas@MERMAID-PRODUCTIONS.COM writes:
>What did JRRT say about Gaelic?
He did not find Gaelic attractive, unlike Welsh.
In one of his letters, he writes "I have no liking at all for Gaelic from Old
Irish downwards, as a language, but it is of course of great historical and
philiological interest." (Letter # 297 in _Letters of JRR Tolkien_)
He makes similar remarks elsewhere, I believe, but that's the only reference
that I have handy.
(In the same letter, he notes an accidental resemblance between Gaelic and
The Black Speech. "Ring" is "nasg" in Scottish Gaelic, and "nazg" in Black
Speech.)
Doug