The Languages of the Second Age
J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium is a remarkable piece of world-building, even moreso at the time The Lord of the Rings was published than today, when terms such as "world-building" have entered our lexicon, largely through attempts to imitate Tolkien, or some of his many imitators. Tolkien's...
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Onomastics
[caption id="attachment_16984" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Theo (Tyroe Muhafidin) gazes at a broken sword he holds in his hand, in a publicity photo from Amazon Studios' upcoming "The Rings of Power" series.[/caption] "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." —Phil Karlton I once...
Translation Conventions in Tolkien and Tolkien Adaptations
The past is a foreign country. —L. P. Hartley My corollary to this rather well-known quote is: "The past is a foreign language," and I like it well enough that sometimes I forget it was not the original quote. When watching films and television shows set in...
Prosody in Tolkien and The Rings of Power
J.R.R. Tolkien, it is fairly well known, was a philologist. The word is not now much used in academia. In contemporary terms a philologist might be called a historical or comparative linguist. However, philology was a broader discipline than that. In today's highly specialized world...
New Middle-earth Games?
Folks, A new string of leaks has pointed us in the direction of some new interesting information around video games rights as it pertains to Middle-earth. Check out the images below. A redditor that goes by LongJonSilver who is a part of the subreddit LeaksAndRumors shared these...
