![]() ![]() Tolkien's glossopoeia has two temporal dimensions: the internal (fictional) timeline of events in Middle-earth described in The Silmarillion and other writings, and the external timeline of Tolkien's own life during which he often revised and refined his languages and their fictional history. The lecture also discusses Tolkien's views on phonaesthetics, citing Greek, Finnish, and Welsh as examples of "languages which have a very characteristic and in their different ways beautiful word-form". Here he contrasts his project of artistic languages constructed for aesthetic pleasure with the pragmatism of international auxiliary languages. ![]() In 1931, he held a lecture about his passion for constructed languages, titled A Secret Vice. ![]() ![]() 1915), and he continued actively developing the history and grammar of his Elvish languages until his death in 1973. 1910–1911 while he was at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He first started constructing an Elvin tongue in c. The most developed of his glossopoeic projects was his family of Elvish languages. An early project was the reconstruction of an unrecorded early Germanic language which might have been spoken by the people of Beowulf in the Germanic Heroic Age. Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly for his fictional world of Middle-earth. Constructed languages of British author and philologist J.R.R. ![]()
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