Harry Potter for Everyone

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: Harry Potter for Everyone
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6753] Re: Harry Potter for Everyone
Date: 8/13/00 2:33 pm  (ET)

> I tried The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings (snip) So much of it
required you to practically learn a new language, which really bothered
me because I love these types of stories.

New language(s): Elvish, Dwarvish, Rohanese, Gondorian, etc.

Tolkien in his personal and professional (as a professor) life was madly
in love with languages (especially Anglo-Saxon and Welsh). On the model
of the languages he loved, he invented new languages like Quenya (High
Elvish). Then his friends in the Inklings challenged him to invent people
who SPOKE those languages. Thus the novels came to be. The appendices
to LOTR existed before LOTR did.