The Lord of the Rings

[kellyrfineman]

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[lisayee]

MASTERPIECE by Elise Broach perfectly captures the world of "small things."

[kellyrfineman]

I liked Shakespeare's Secret, and will keep an eye out for Masterpiece!

[docstymie]

[kellyrfineman]

I tried to read it once when I was a teen, but got lost. I should probably try it again.

Ardalambion

[powerpuffpunk]

I took a minor in language-science, and for one of my projects I constructed a language based off what I thought Sindarin would sound like if it was splattered all over Old English. The Coolest LOTR Site in the World is Ardalambion, or the Languages of Middle-Earth (all of them! Including a course on Quenya!). I think Ardalambion was part of the webmaster's linguistic thesis (or a supplement to it). It's tubular.

Re: Ardalambion

[kellyrfineman]

I'll bet Tolkien would have loved that site (and the idea). He was quite a scholar of linguistics, and really understood Old and Middle English (as well as some of the Norse languages, if memory serves). He wrote a scholarly article on Beowulf that changed how the world saw the piece: before Tolkien, it was a novelty used to teach people about Old English. After Tolkien, it was also seen as a poem worthy of reading and understanding for its own merits, in addition to being used as a device of torture teaching.