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Old 09-06-2000, 06:36 AM   #6
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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: &quot;Philological Inquiries&quot;

A simple and obvious thought has occurred to me on the supposed contradiction of JRRT's philological love/hate of invented languages -- if his work on the Silmarillion began as far back as his high school days, then wouldn't the roots of his invention of Elvish also date to those days? So he invented his language or at least began the invention long before he ever became the bona fide philological scholar he was to become. Perhaps it was even his interest in developing Elvish which led him to his studies in the field.

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