• GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    He never 'wrote' the Silmarillion, he wrote bits and pieces of into unfished stuff that his son compiled and edited into as best a narrative as possible and that's the Silmarillion. He did in a sense start some writings that over many decades later would become the writings of the Silmarillion but to say he wrote the book in the trenches is super misleading

      • theship [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yes, this. But language is nothing without culture. And to make up languages you need to make up cultures. 50 years later, and you have a cultural classic that people love, and people actually speak his languages. I wonder which has more speakers, Sindarin or Klingon?

        • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Probably Sindarin. Klingon is intentionally linguistically really hard like, no matter what your culture is. There's a big feature with the linguist they hired for star trek 3 on the special features and he tries to use all of the least common word orders, grammar and all that in human language. Sindarin is easier to figure out words that don't already exist as well, it's not made intentionally hard for humans to get naturally. I guess Finnish people have a pretty easy time with Sindarin cause there are a lot of similarities.

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        He kinda gave up on the mythology for England idea pretty early on as well.

    • red_stapler [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      How many Pinocchios do we award this tweet? :citations-needed: