Ahhh, nice! I really like how Sindarin is beginning to inhabit a similar function that Quenya would have had in the First Age. I'm still a bit surprised by the divide (interesting), but it's nice to know, thank you!
incidentally some of the old-school language geeks don't like Salo, not sure entirely why?
From what I know, Salo is a proponent of various Neo-languages and likes to take frequent liberties, which rubs the "purists" the wrong way - he's behind the various dialogues on the movies (he writes about them on Midgardsmal (http://midgardsmal.com/)), and A Gateway to Sindarin seems to be listing in the same direction. Tolkien Gateway has a bit more info on that here (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Neo-Elvish#Criticism). I've never read the book myself, and I've enjoyed puzzling out the Orcish dialogue in the Hobbit moves based on what I know Tolkien's languages, but it seems to be a case of (mostly) linguistic(ally logical) fanfic rather than canon. Sorry you lost your boxes, though - that's not fun. :/
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Date: 2014-03-23 11:38 pm (UTC)incidentally some of the old-school language geeks don't like Salo, not sure entirely why?
From what I know, Salo is a proponent of various Neo-languages and likes to take frequent liberties, which rubs the "purists" the wrong way - he's behind the various dialogues on the movies (he writes about them on Midgardsmal (http://midgardsmal.com/)), and A Gateway to Sindarin seems to be listing in the same direction. Tolkien Gateway has a bit more info on that here (http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Neo-Elvish#Criticism). I've never read the book myself, and I've enjoyed puzzling out the Orcish dialogue in the Hobbit moves based on what I know Tolkien's languages, but it seems to be a case of (mostly) linguistic(ally logical) fanfic rather than canon. Sorry you lost your boxes, though - that's not fun. :/