Supplement 3: Poetry Composition — Linnyd and Aerlinn Forms
Tolkien as Poet-Linguist J.R.R. Tolkien was not a linguist who happened to write fiction. He was, at his core, a philologist — a scholar of language who loved language for its own sake, for its sound and its history and the way it encodes culture. His two constructed Elvish languages were not just invented vocabularies and grammars; they were phonologically engineered to be beautiful in verse . The sound system...