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\u27Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27: J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves [PDF]

, 2016
Those Who Cling in Queer Corners To The Forgotten Tongues and Memories of an Elder Day\u27 J.R.R. Tolkien, Finns and Elves Dr. Andrew Higgins In this paper I will explore how several historic, literary and mythic associations of the Finnish people with ...
Higgins, Andrew Scott
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Multilingualism in fiction [PDF]

, 2017
Multilingualism is a fact that has shaped and is shaping the linguistic set-up of our societies. Fictional texts also have a long tradition of drawing on polyglottal means, a fact that has been studied in many different disciplines. This chapter sketches
Locher, Miriam A.
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Notoriété des langues construites

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Awareness of constructed languages There are many constructed languages, but awareness of them among the general public is low. In 2022, the Espéranto-Développement-45 association carried out a survey to find out how well known 10 constructed ...
Pierre Dieumegard
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Ónë tengwelë : Elvish and English sound symbolism and ethnocentrism in J.R.R Tolkien’s constructed languages

, 2018
J.R.R. Tolkien is most famous for the fantasy series The Lord of the Rings, but long before he began writing the trilogy and its many counterparts, Tolkien constructed a number of languages for the inhabitants of Middle-earth. Phonosemanticism is the idea that phonemes carry meaning, irrespective of their lexical value.
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Tolkien\u27s A Secret Vice and \u27the language that is spoken in the Island of Fonway\u27 [PDF]

, 2016
Note: I delivered a shortened version of this paper (entitled \u27Early Explorers and Practitioners of a shared \u27Secret Vice\u27) at the May 2016 International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan as part of the Tolkien and Invented Language ...
Higgins, Andrew S, Dr.
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J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. [PDF]

, 2015
J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013), edited by Helen Conrad-O’Briain and Gerard Hynes. Book Review by Kelley M.
Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M.
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Quenya is Practically a Main Character

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In the last forty years, fan fictions, derivative writings openly based on published works of fiction, have gone from being shared on semi-secretive zines circulating between a handful of people, to being hosted on public online archives, such as ...
Gloria Comandini, Francesco Dedè
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Re-reading the Map of Middle-earth: Fan Cartography\u27s Engagement with Tolkien\u27s Legendarium [PDF]

, 2018
J.R.R. Tolkien provided an elaborate textual history for his writings about Middle-earth, but did not do so for his now-iconic maps. This paper examines how this difference, in concert with the general tendency of readers to treat maps as objective ...
Danielson, Stentor
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Language and Story: An Argument for the Right Reading of Tolkien’s Legendarium [PDF]

, 2008
Current views on the translation of Tolkien are that his works are completely translatable and understandable. The Lord of the Rings has been translated into many languages, and has sold millions the world over.
Jarmin, Lucas D
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Tolkien’s Poetry (2013), edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner [PDF]

, 2015
Tolkien’s Poetry (2013), edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner.
Higgins, Andrew
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