ENGLISH 350: Tolkien and Language

So here we are the end of all things -- well, not really, but we are at the end of our summer course. Later this year, I'm sure, many...

Tolkien's lesser languages, although less thoroughly worked-out, had much of the same symmetry and internal consistency as Elvish, an...

Once he had his languages, Tolkien sought to map out their historical relationships, beginning (philologist as he was) with a prototypic...

The land now known as England was originally inhabited by an unknown culture of people, sometimes referred to as "Megalithic" p...

Who makes languages, and why? Haven't we enough in the world already? And, unless one's goal is to raise a community of people to...

T olkien was a master of language -- in terms of his reading knowledge, one could say he was "fluent" in Latin, Anglo-Saxon (...

They're "a bit of a slog" according to many. Most, as Tolkien himself suggested, have left well enough alone, and skipped t...

One of the most interesting things that our six "test" theses about The Hobbit reveal is a remarkably consistent set of shared a...

Welcome to the class blog for ENGL 350: Tolkien and Language , Summer Session I 2014 at Rhode Island College. Have a look around! This b...