Re: tolkien?
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, December 11, 2003, 3:35 |
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:12:36 EST, "<Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier>"
<SMITHV637@...> wrote:
>i was wondering who many of you were in spired by tolkien? thats why i
>started all this in the first place. and if you werent inspired by tolkien who or
>what made you start?
Tolkien was one influence of many. My earliest languages (Olaetian and
Neesklaaz) date from the late 70's, around the time of _Star Wars_, which
may have been an early influence. H. Beam Piper's short story _Omnilingual_
was another one. I also heard about Esperanto from somewhere, and learned
some of it from a book in the local public library. By the time I was
deeply involved in conlanging as a hobby, Marc Okrand's Klingon dictionary
was published. My interest in natlangs was also a source of inspiration for
some of my conlangs; in particular, R.M.W. Dixon's book on the Australian
language Dyirbal (also spelled Jirrbal) inspired me to create a number of
conlangs with ergative morphology.