R. R. Tolkien, is the depth and vibrancy of the languages he created. This is heavily due to the fact that, even before he first conceived of a Hobbit, Tolkien was a philologist — a scholar of ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, ...

Tolkien once had a vision of this structure as a temple to Morgoth, the villain of Middle-earth. Kieran Dodds No writer in the English language has ever created a more complete world than John ...

The Gaelic translation, supported by the Gaelic Books Council, joins a growing list of languages allowing new engagement with ...

British author J. R. R. Tolkien's tale of the fall of Númenor was inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Atlantis.

The first ever Gaelic translation of " The Hobbit " has been published by a university professor. Moray Watson, Professor of ...

“Every single time I read it, in every single language, I get to experience the deep, rich joy of discovering Tolkien’s world. “It’s no wonder people fell in love with this book, and ...

The first Scottish Gaelic translation of JRR Tolkien's fantasy adventure The Hobbit has been completed by a professor at the University of Aberdeen. Moray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and ...

The first ever Gaelic translation of The Hobbit has been published by a university professor. Moray Watson, Professor of ...