Re: tolkien?

--- Doug Dee <AmateurLinguist@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/13/2003 12:59:30 PM
> Eastern Standard Time,
> ryumaou@SBCGLOBAL.NET writes:
>
>
> >My original inspiration was from an article in
> Dragon Magazine called
> >"Even Orcish is Logical" by Clyde Heaton.
>
> That was the first issue of Dragon I ever
> bought, & I still have it.  (I had
> been conlanging before that, and had read
> Tolkien years before.)
>
> I remember that I was a bit disappointed that
> some Orcish words from other D&
> D material (e.g., names of Orcish deities)
> violated the phonology of Orcish as
> presented in the article.
> The author could have striven harder for
> consistency.
>
> The author doesn't seem especially
> knowledgeable about linguistics either,
> but I liked the article.

Care to share the article if it's not too long,
or at least distill some of its essence?

Padraic.


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