The Invented Languages of The Lord of the Rings
LIGN 87 (Freshman Seminar)
Section ID: 473464
http://ling.ucsd.edu/~bakovic/tolkien/
Week 2, Reading #2:
Stanton, Michael N., ‘On Languages.’ Chapter 15 of Hobbits, Elves, and Wizards, pp.
147-158. New York: PALGRAVE, 2001.
From the book’s Preface (p. xii):
“Parenthetical references to the text of The Lord of the Rings refer first to Part I, Part II,
or Part III, then to the page number in the Ballantine paperback first issued in 1965, then,
in italics, to the Del Rey/Ballantine paperback currently available.”
Notes on bibliographic references in the endnotes:
“Letters” = Humphrey Carpenter (ed.) The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien.
“Noel” = Ruth Noel, The Languages of Tolkien’s Middle-earth.
Jeffrey Henning’s essay “Growing Up with Language” is available online at:
http://www.langmaker.com/ml0108.htm