Some long shot guesses - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 12-23-2003, 11:16 PM

Thank you for your helpful and interesting responses. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

I apologize for not expressing myself as clearly as I might have. Findegil's answer shows that he saw through my muddled prose rather well.

I didn't expect a geographical one-to-one relation; that's hardly Tolkien's way, I supopse. And do I understand correctly that JRRT did in fact use Welsh as the basis for one of his elvish language? And if this was so, is it perhaps not such a far stretch that the elvish people who spoke the language based on Welsh, would therefore have a personality akin to the Welsh? Maybe I'm way out on a limb this time, but I find the possibility interesting and, if meritorious, perhaps robust in offering new areas of exploration. Sorry for all the multi-syllabic verbage. It's just how my mind is working tonight, I guess. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

12-23-2003, 11:16 PM	#6
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Thank you for your helpful and interesting responses. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I apologize for not expressing myself as clearly as I might have. Findegil's answer shows that he saw through my muddled prose rather well. I didn't expect a geographical one-to-one relation; that's hardly Tolkien's way, I supopse. And do I understand correctly that JRRT did in fact use Welsh as the basis for one of his elvish language? And if this was so, is it perhaps not such a far stretch that the elvish people who spoke the language based on Welsh, would therefore have a personality akin to the Welsh? Maybe I'm way out on a limb this time, but I find the possibility interesting and, if meritorious, perhaps robust in offering new areas of exploration. Sorry for all the multi-syllabic verbage. It's just how my mind is working tonight, I guess. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]