Naffarin
A speculative translation from Tolkien's first invented language
In the lecture he delivered in 1931, afterwards given the name (by Christopher Tolkien) ‘A Secret Vice’, Tolkien recalls his first experiences of inventing languages. When a child he encountered ‘Animalic’ (invented by some other children) in which words, mostly animal names, are substituted for other words, and a Jabberwocky-esque ‘nonsense’ language c…
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