Speaking of Tolkien...
| From: | paul-bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 12, 2003, 19:04 |
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...here's a bit from the Grauniad that seeks to answer the question "How did
Tolkien come up with the languages for Middle Earth?"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1103955,00.html
"They are invented languages but they are completely logical and they're
linguistically sound," says Fred Hoyt, a linguistics researcher at the
University of Texas in Austin who also teaches a course on Elvish.
Paul
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