A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0874809126 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Get it" according to MovieFan. At first its a little long but when you really get past the boring parts i couldnt put it down. Five Stars great product thx. Jen's Reviews J. Kensington For the very hardcore Tolkien. Most pages are very hard to decipher unless you are a Tolkien professor. Good keepsake.
"Puts to shame not a few published works on real-world languages."—Mark Newbrook, Monash University
R. R. Salo covers the grammar, morphology, and history of the language. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. By the time of his death, he had established fairly complete descriptions of two languages, the "elvish" tongues Quenya and Sindarin. Like his other languages, Sindarin was a new invention, not based on any existing or artificial language. Supplemental material includes a vocabulary, Sindarin names, a glossary of terms, and an annotated list of works relevant to Sindarin. What emerges is an homage to Tolkien's scholarly philological efforts.. 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 Gateway to Sindarin, David Salo has created a volume that is a serious look at an entertaining topic. From the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J