Re: OT: Quick Intro
| From: | John M. Dollan <dollan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 20, 2003, 20:37 |
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For my own part, I can only say that I am adhering to this pattern because
the stories will be dealing with multiple races of Humans, but at the moment
only one race of Aubrekka, Aewylin, and e'Gratën will be encountered. Now,
if I do some other tales in a different time or location, or if the current
storyline encounters other races of these various species, then I will
introduce other languages, probably based on the earlier created languages.
Even so, I doubt that I will ever achieve the level of Tolkien's work, even
with years of work. I can only hope to do well by an honest and hard
attempt.
...John...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Johansson" <and_yo@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Quick Intro
> He actually had a few more Elvish languages, like Telerin and Silvan
Elvish.
> But I suspect that the Lord of the Rings, with it's plentiful references
to
> Elvish speech and Dwarvish inscriptions, has, thru' not too attentive
> readers, helped establish the pattern in many Fantasy worlds of each
> non-human race having just one language. I've, in RPGs, seen rather
amusing
> examples of this, where Dwarfs speak Dwarf, Minotaurs speak Minotaur and
> Halflings speak Halfling, while the humans, in addition to being the only
> race that doesn't get a capital letter, for some reason don't speak Human.
> And they _never_ bother to explain this irregular state of affairs.
>
> Andreas
>
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