Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien
Tolkien was not only a successful author of one of the most complex fantasy lore available in Western literature, but he was also a gifted philologist whose interests ranged from the most disparaged languages, such as Germanic languages, Finnish, Celtic languages and also Latin and Greek. For the c...
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Tolkien was not only a successful author of one of the most complex fantasy lore available in Western literature, but he was also a gifted philologist whose interests ranged from the most disparaged languages, such as Germanic languages, Finnish, Celtic languages and also Latin and Greek. For the creation of his glottopoietic masterpieces – Quenya and Sindarin – he followed an a posteriori process, moving from the templates represented by natural languages, such as Finnish, Germanic languages, Welsh and also Classical languages. Focussing on Quenya, in particular, it is noticeable how this invented language possesses a few relevant features that makes it similar to Latin not only according to the narrowest linguistic perspective but also according to a broader perspective, including the sociolinguistic viewpoint. Some of these features have been summarized and presented in this paper, showing how Tolkien not only reproduced – according to his phonoaesthetic taste – linguistic feature that were closer to Latin than to any other language, but he also reproduced and mimicked the relationships that Latin had with other languages during different periods of its existence.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9415d849c0074e8b86d23f5f44d783a52022-12-31T17:06:32ZdeuUniversità degli Studi di TorinoRiCognizioni2384-89872022-12-0191810.13135/2384-8987/7132Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di TolkienFrancesca Cotugno Tolkien was not only a successful author of one of the most complex fantasy lore available in Western literature, but he was also a gifted philologist whose interests ranged from the most disparaged languages, such as Germanic languages, Finnish, Celtic languages and also Latin and Greek. For the creation of his glottopoietic masterpieces – Quenya and Sindarin – he followed an a posteriori process, moving from the templates represented by natural languages, such as Finnish, Germanic languages, Welsh and also Classical languages. Focussing on Quenya, in particular, it is noticeable how this invented language possesses a few relevant features that makes it similar to Latin not only according to the narrowest linguistic perspective but also according to a broader perspective, including the sociolinguistic viewpoint. Some of these features have been summarized and presented in this paper, showing how Tolkien not only reproduced – according to his phonoaesthetic taste – linguistic feature that were closer to Latin than to any other language, but he also reproduced and mimicked the relationships that Latin had with other languages during different periods of its existence. https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/7132QuenyaLatinorthographyphoneticsgrammar |
| spellingShingle | Francesca Cotugno Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien RiCognizioni Quenya Latin orthography phonetics grammar |
| title | Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien |
| title_full | Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien |
| title_fullStr | Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien |
| title_short | Linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di Tolkien |
| title_sort | linguistica e tradizione classica come fonti per la glottopoiesi di tolkien |
| topic | Quenya Latin orthography phonetics grammar |
| url | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/ricognizioni/article/view/7132 |
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