Tolkien's Secret Vice | Escape Into Meaning
A video on YouTube. In Video Essays, a Krater category.
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This video essay explores J.R.R. Tolkien's passion for constructing artificial languages like Animalic, Nevbosh, and Naffarin, and how this linguistic obsession birthed the deep mythology and immersive world of Middle-earth.
From the video
Answers: How did J.R.R. Tolkien's invented languages create the world of Middle-earth?
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- constructed languages
- Middle-earth mythology
- philology
- art-languages
What it concludes
- Constructing art-languages leads to the necessity of building an accompanying mythology.
- Tolkien's Middle-earth feels exceptionally solid because its core is rooted in deeply developed languages.
- For the keen escapist, Middle-earth remains the premier destination due to its meticulously crafted history and environment.
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