Re: New Book out: Fictional and Fantastic Languages

taliesin the storyteller skrev:
 > * Sally Caves said on 2006-12-10 19:06:56 +0100
 >> I have recently purchased an expensive, just released
 >> encyclopedia by Tim Conley and Stephen Cain,
 >> _Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages_
 >> (Westport CT, London: Greenwood Press, 2006). It has a
 >> foreword by Ursula K. Le Guin, author as you know of
 >> "Kesh" (and she talks about
 >> it). It tends to stress languages that are print
 >>    published, like Klingon, but it has a preface by the
 >>    authors in which they acknowledge CONLANG.
 >
 > Heh, thanks, now I know what I want for christmas! Not
 > that I'd get it in time, but *drool*...

I've done the second best, i.e. filed an acquisition
proposal with my uni library, which has always worked in the
past, as their budget is obviously way beyond mine (hey they
seem to be subscribing Brill publications! :-). This means
I'll get to read the thing somewhen in March...

Sally, can you tell me what's in it on Tolkien's languages?

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