A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

2016 • 224 pages

First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.

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