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J.R.R. Tolkien talks about languages – 1968
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J.R.R. Tolkien talks about languages – 1968
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*“No, I don’t desire to go and have afternoons talking Elvish to chaps. Well, because… Elvish is too complicated, I’ve never finished making it.”*
The madlad actually ended up making *two* kinds of Elvish with a vocabulary of a couple thousand words total.
And then he invented 10 or 11 more languages for Middle-Earth for which there’s a handful to a hundred words.
People with the neatest handwriting: Wow that’s amazing!
Tolkien writing Elvish: Beautiful…