Re: Speaking of Tolkien...

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 20:46:32 +0100, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
wrote:

> Quoting paul-bennett <paul-bennett@...>:
>
>> ...here's a bit from the Grauniad that seeks to answer the question "How
>> did
>> Tolkien come up with the languages for Middle Earth?"
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/thisweek/story/0,12977,1103955,00.html
>>
>> "They are invented languages but they are completely logical and they're
>> linguistically sound," says Fred Hoyt, a linguistics researcher at the
>> University of Texas in Austin who also teaches a course on Elvish.
>
> Forgive me for being hard to please, but between consistently using the
> spelling "Qenya" and claiming that Quenya uses umlauts to indicate
> changes in sound, I do not get the impression that article was researched
> quite as well as it should have been.
It's the Guardian. That's what they do (that and a slight tinge of bias
towards the Liberal Intellectual Elite).

Still, it's kinda nice to see a national newspaper of some regard give a
serious nod towards conlanging, even if it did fail to mention the hundreds
of us that there are here and elsewhere, continuing the craft. And by
hundreds, I do mean hundreds: listserv.brown.edu suggests there are 446
subscribers to this list alone.

Hold on -- that's less than a quarter of a post each per day. I must have
exceeded by quota more than once.




Paul