Another of Tolkien's favorites was Welsh language - and features of Welsh phonology found their way to Sindarin. Finnish morphology (particularly its rich system of inflection) in part gave rise to Quenya. In particular, he developed love for the Finnish language (he described the finding of a Finnish grammar book as 'entering a complete wine-cellar filled with bottles of an amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before' ). For example he started to create and then abandoned Mágol (or Mágo), based on Hungarian language and conceived it as Mannish and then Orkish language. Tolkien was a professional linguist and a specialist in the Old English language, but he was also interested in many languages outside his field. Animalic and Nevbosh ('New Nonsense') were the first languages that Tolkien invented during his youth and from the latter he developed another language called Naffarin (inspired to Latin and Spanish). Language invention had always been tightly connected to the mythology that Tolkien developed, as he found that a language could not be complete without the history of the people who spoke it. He is known to have constructed his first languages at a little over thirteen years of age, and he continued to ponder upon his creations up until his death more than sixty-five years later. Language-making was Tolkien's hobby for most of his life. When discussing the languages of Middle-earth, it is necessary to consider two aspects: their 'primary-world' history, namely their literal development by Tolkien as a linguist, and their 'secondary world' history, their imagined historical development in the history of Middle-earth.

I should have preferred to write in 'Elvish'.' - Tolkien in a 1955 letter to Houghton Mifflin

To me a name comes first and the story follows. The stories were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. ' The invention of languages is the foundation. Creating languages was a major early pastime of Tolkien's, ever since his years as a youth. The creation of the mythology that manifests in those works began with Tolkien's passion for language in general and for philology, which is the branch of knowledge dealing with the structure, historical development, and relationships of existing languages. Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth, including The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillion.

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