A Gateway to Sindarin : A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Condition:Very Good Encyclopedic and panoramic in its

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A Gateway to Sindarin : A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Condition:Very Good Encyclopedic and panoramic in itsFrom the 1910s to the 1970s, author and linguist J. R. R. Tolkien worked at creating plausibly realistic languages to be used by the creatures and characters in his novels. Like his other languages, Sindarin was a new invention, not based on any existing or artificial language. By the time of his death, he had established fairly complete descriptions of two languages, the "elvish" tongues Quenya and Sindarin. He was able to compose poetic and prose