An article about Tolkien's languages

[The Saucepan Man]

Great article, Squatter, though I agree with you about the closing remark.

Having Welsh roots, I am interested in the idea of the Elvish language being derived from Welsh. One thing that occurred to me while reading the article is that in both Welsh and Elvish "dh" is (I think) pronounced "th". Does anyone know of any other similarities?

He was plagued by Californians who, unaware of the time difference, telephoned him in the middle of the night to ask arcane questions about Hobbit lore.

Were he still alive, he would no doubt be plagued by similar questions from BD'ers. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]