Re: Tolkien's notion of biology

Interesting. I didn't really think it had that much to do with linguistics,
but (in retrospect) I suppose it did.

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Hi all,

So, it's been a while.  Been very busy teaching and whatnot.
Before I can post something about C'ali or Phaleran (I don't
really have anything to post), in the meantime here's a post
from a linguistics blog about Tolkien:

<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000214.html>

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