Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien "gods"), Valarin, and divided into three branches: Tolkien later revised this internal history to the effect that the Elves had been capable of inventing language on their own, before coming into contact with Valarin (see Primitive Quendian). When working on "The Lord of the Rings" during the 1940s, Tolkien invested great effort into detailing the linguistics of Middle-earth. As "The Lord of the Rings" was intended to represent as a sequel to "The Hobbit", which had not originally been intended to form part of the legendarium and used Old Norse names for the Dwarves, Tolkien came up with a literary
U. S. R. Murty of the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. U. S. R. Murty Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty, or U. S. R. Murty (as he prefers to write his name), is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo. U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with a thesis on extremal graph theory; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in matroid theory and graph theory, and mainly for being a co-author with J. A. Bondy of a textbook on graph theory. Murty