Re: Article on Elvish, etc.

Matt Pearson wrote:
>Check out the following article from one of our local weekly
>papers, the Los Angeles "New Times".  It discusses Tolkein's
>Elvish and Elvish scholarship within the context of the upcoming
>"Lord of the Rings" movies, and also touches on Klingon,
>Chickasaw, conlanging in Hollywood, and the problem of endangered
>languages.  Marcus Smith and myself were interviewed
>(unfortunately they got my name wrong, Mark instead of Matt, but
>oh well...).
>
>For those of you who are not in the LA area (viz. 99% of you),
>the web address for the article is:
>http://www.newtimesla.com/issues/2001-04-19/sidecar.html>

Kudos to both you and Marcus.

I suppose the reported needed _some_ sort of angle, but the idea that the
movie version of LOTR is "about the language" is odd to say the least.  In
that case, so was "Quest for Fire".

And is it true that Klingon was based on an Amerind language?  I'm not up on
the ins and outs of the Klingon world, but my impression was that it was
about as a priori as you could get, and deliberately so.  Oh well.  Even the
gods have feet of clay.

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