↯ Klaatu - Some Brave Apollo ↯ on Nostr: nprofile1q…kpscx Tolkien was a linguistics professor and he was building languages ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq28yhkplq5utyq3xvy0xe3zv3m5etlvcaqk77khv6spyjgvqcszkq9kpscx (nprofile…pscx) Tolkien was a linguistics professor and he was building languages by stealing old words from archaic dead languages. The Elven alphabet in Lord of the Rings was directly lifted from ancient Viking runes. He sat at a desk at Oxford across from C. S. Lewis and they proofread each other's works in a competitive world building fashion. Different takes on religious prehistory storytelling.