Re: tolkien?

Hallo!

On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:12:36 EST,
"<Wilhelm Ulrich Schlaier>" <SMITHV637@...> wrote:

> i was wondering who many of you were in spired by tolkien? thats why i
> started all this in the first place. and if you werent inspired by tolkien
> who or
> what made you start?
I did my first early ventures into conlanging before I was aware of
Tolkien's linguistic inventions, though Tolkien later was a major
source of inspiration to me.  When I realized how much depth his world
has, I wanted to create something like that myself, which included
working out languages.  My current main conlang project was inspired
by a Tolkien fan fiction story about modern-day Elves, _Home Eleven_,
which is available on the Net:

http://alt-tolkien.com/r13home11.html

It started as a modern-day descendent of Sindarin, but soon took its
own path.  The language family name "Quendic" was a leftover from
those beginnings; meanwhile, I have dropped it in favour of the
working title "Hesperic", but I still refer to the speakers of
Hesperic as "Elves", even though they are ordinary humans.

Greetings,

Jörg.