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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Elven language
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
References: <3f89fd$m1p@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <moose-1601951120470001@pacsci-28.pacsci.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 1995 22:13:11 GMT
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In article <moose-1601951120470001@pacsci-28.pacsci.org> moose@halcyon.com (Moosenose) writes:
>In article <3f89fd$m1p@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
>s635661@gik.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Alexander Salokat) wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to learn the elven language (Tolkien?)
>> (OK, I'm a bit stupid and should learn the english first...)
>> 
>Check out _The_Languages_of_Middle_Earth_ (I think; there might be a
>"Tolkien's" in the title as well) by Ruth S. Noel.

<yelling on top of his lungs>  No, no, no!

No, for heaven's sake don't check it out.  Don't read that book.
Don't even look at it.  If you do, you'll end up learning a lot
of utter garbage that you'll have to unlearn afterwards.

Ruth S Noel is an irrecoverable idiot who (1) knows nothing about the
languages of the present world, (2) knows nothing about the languages
of Middle-earth and (3) is unable to distinguish between Tolkien's
linguistic invention and her own wretched fabrications.

>Unfortunately my copy is packed away in a box,

Keep it there.  If you ever happen to take it out, burn it and scatter
the ashes in some uninhabited place, where it can do no harm.

The thing was made by the Enemy himself.  It is altogether evil.
The only way to deal with it is to cast it into the Fire.

>and I can't verify the title or give you a publisher.

In my honest opinion selling this book should be a capital crime.

-- 
`Don't know whit ye're bletherin aboot', said Peter.    (The Glasgow Gospel)
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk, iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu)
* Centre for Cognitive Science,  2 Buccleuch Place,   Edinburgh EH8 9LW,  UK
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