ELVISH LANGUAGE
ELVISH LANGUAGE
Fiona and Julia
Fiona and Julia
INDEX
BACKGROUND
SCRIPTS #1
MAP
SCRIPTS#2
HISTORY
EXAMPLES
ORGINS
FUN FACTS
STRUCTURE
ADDITIONAL FUN FACT
VIDEO
BACKGROUND
Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology. It was inhabited by Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits, Ents, Orcs and Trolls.
map
HISTORY
The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created a number of constructed languages, including languages created for fictional settings. He firstly started constructing Elvish language in 1910, and continued developing the history and grammar of his Elvish languages until his death in 1973. Tolkien even once stated that he started from constructing the languages, and then he created characters who spoke them.
ORGINS
J. R. R. Tolkien constructed many Elvish languages. These were the various languages spoken by the Elves of Middle-earth as they developed as a society throughout the Ages. The two properly developed ones are Quenya and Sindarin, but he also created a dozen other dialects. He constructed them taking bits of his favourite real-world languages (like Finnish, Welsh and old English) and splicing them together.
STRUCTURE
As we mentioned before Quenya and Sindarin are the only two fully completed languages. If we take a closer look at them, we will see that both in vocabulary and pronunciation they have some similarities with real languages. For example some letters are pronounced like in Spanish and others like in German. Many words also have endings that come from Finnish or Welsh. And it is important to notice that both Quenya and Sindarin are similar in pronunciation, but they have different words.
VIDEO
EXAMPLE OF SINDARIN ELVISH
SCRIPTS
Tolkien also created scripts for his Elvish languages. The first one was Cirth and it was based on real-life runic alphabet with some modifications. Later he constructed Tengwar, which was a completely artificial script. They are two types of Tengwar, they one with diacritics as vowels, and the one with separate letters for vowels. Those scriptures were used not only for the two most popular Elvish languages but also any other invented by Tolkien.
EXAMPLES OF SCRIPTS
FUN FACTS
TRILOGY VS REAL WORLD
Even though Elvish languages were created for the purpose of Tolkien’s trilogy, they are now spoken in real world. For example on the Internet we can find a lot of resources to learn them, and even some course books.
ADDITIONAL FUN FACT
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ELVISH LANGUAGE
ELVISH LANGUAGE
Fiona and Julia
Fiona and Julia
INDEX
BACKGROUND
SCRIPTS #1
MAP
SCRIPTS#2
HISTORY
EXAMPLES
ORGINS
FUN FACTS
STRUCTURE
ADDITIONAL FUN FACT
VIDEO
BACKGROUND
Middle-earth is the fictional setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology. It was inhabited by Elves, Men, Dwarves, Hobbits, Ents, Orcs and Trolls.
map
HISTORY
The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created a number of constructed languages, including languages created for fictional settings. He firstly started constructing Elvish language in 1910, and continued developing the history and grammar of his Elvish languages until his death in 1973. Tolkien even once stated that he started from constructing the languages, and then he created characters who spoke them.
ORGINS
J. R. R. Tolkien constructed many Elvish languages. These were the various languages spoken by the Elves of Middle-earth as they developed as a society throughout the Ages. The two properly developed ones are Quenya and Sindarin, but he also created a dozen other dialects. He constructed them taking bits of his favourite real-world languages (like Finnish, Welsh and old English) and splicing them together.
STRUCTURE
As we mentioned before Quenya and Sindarin are the only two fully completed languages. If we take a closer look at them, we will see that both in vocabulary and pronunciation they have some similarities with real languages. For example some letters are pronounced like in Spanish and others like in German. Many words also have endings that come from Finnish or Welsh. And it is important to notice that both Quenya and Sindarin are similar in pronunciation, but they have different words.
VIDEO
EXAMPLE OF SINDARIN ELVISH
SCRIPTS
Tolkien also created scripts for his Elvish languages. The first one was Cirth and it was based on real-life runic alphabet with some modifications. Later he constructed Tengwar, which was a completely artificial script. They are two types of Tengwar, they one with diacritics as vowels, and the one with separate letters for vowels. Those scriptures were used not only for the two most popular Elvish languages but also any other invented by Tolkien.
EXAMPLES OF SCRIPTS
FUN FACTS
TRILOGY VS REAL WORLD
Even though Elvish languages were created for the purpose of Tolkien’s trilogy, they are now spoken in real world. For example on the Internet we can find a lot of resources to learn them, and even some course books.
ADDITIONAL FUN FACT
THANK YOU