Re: Tolkien language(s) question

-- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:27:51PM +0000, Robert B Wilson wrote:
> > actually it's more like Sindarin:Quenya :: French:Italian...
>
> Not really, because Q[u]enya was specifically envisioned by Tolkein > as
> the "Elvish Latin".  The French/Italian comparison works if you
> consider Italy to be all of Middle-Earth and France to be
> another dimension.  That latter bit isn't too far off, actually . . .
> ;-)
but sindarin isn't descended from quenya... they're both descended from common
eldarin, which is a very different language from quenya.

> -Mark
Robert Wilson

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