Gateway to Sindarin A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Name: Gateway to Sindarin A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
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ISBN: 9780874809121

ISBN-10: 0874809126

ISBN-13: 9780874809121

Edition: 2004

Authors: David Salo

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From the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. Like his other languages, Sindarin was a new invention, not based on any existing or artificial language. By the time of his death, he had established fairly complete descriptions of two languages, the "elvish" tongues Quenya and Sindarin. He was able to compose poetic and prose texts in both, and he also constructed a lengthy sequence of changes for both from an ancestral "proto-language," comparable to the development of historical languages and capable of analysis with the techniques of historical linguistics.In A…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English