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