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sparrowruth
Rivendell
Dec 3 2019, 5:01am
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Video review of Sindarin
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I fell into a conlang hole on youtube this evening, and ran across this review of sindarin as a conlang. Thought some people on here might enjoy it
https://youtu.be/TY7EEBUgg6Y
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squire
Half-elven
Dec 3 2019, 7:52pm
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It was nice seeing a discussion of Tolkien's languages where the narrator could say, rather than just write, the sounds involved. After that I rather got lost as my familiarity with Sindarin goes more in the direction of etymologies, based on written words in the books like placenames, etc. This article got going strongly in the direction of phonology, which I've never been very good at, so I'm afraid I dropped out around 06:00.
The critic cheerfully introduces himself by saying he's going to get his facts wrong, and indeed he did in one area I do know something about. Tolkien's famous remark about his stories being written to display the languages was a reference to the genesis of the Silmarillion and the First Age tales. He did not write The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings in order to give Sindarin a story-vehicle, as our cheerfully wrong critic assures us.
Thanks for the link. Am I correct in guessing that 'conlang' means 'constructed language'?
squire online:
RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Lights! Action! Discuss on the Movie board!: 'A Journey in the Dark'. and 'Designing The Two Towers'.
Archive: All the TORn Reading Room Book Discussions (including the 1st BotR Discussion!) and Footerama: "Tolkien would have LOVED it!"
Dr. Squire introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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sparrowruth
Rivendell
Dec 3 2019, 8:07pm
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Yes, conlang is a pretty common abbreviation of constructed language //
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