What is one of the fictional languages spoken by the Elves in the fantasy works of J R R Tolkien?
Tolkien research Tolkien research The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering subjects such as Tolkien as a writer of fantasy literature and Tolkien's invented languages. Tolkien's constructed languages, Quenya and Sindarin, the languages of Elves, have inspired linguistic research. "Parma Eldalamberon" and "Vinyar Tengwar" are published by the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship of the Mythopoeic Society a non-profit organization. The "Vinyar Tengwar" and "Parma Eldalamberon" material published at an increasing rate during the early 2000s is from the stock of linguistic material in the possession of the appointed team of editors (some 3000 pages according to
Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien Languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien The philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created a number of constructed languages, including languages devised for fictional settings. Inventing languages (called "glossopoeia" by Tolkien, from Greek γλῶσσα glôssa, "language, tongue" and ποιῶ poiô, "to make" paralleling his idea of "mythopoeia" or myth-making) was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens. An early project of Tolkien was the reconstruction of an unrecorded early Germanic language which might have been spoken by the people of "Beowulf" in the Germanic heroic age. The most-developed project of Tolkien was his Elvish languages. He