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One rule to rule them all (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sick. Is this an acutal language on the keys, or just lord of the rings jibberish?

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 44 points 11 months ago

Both.

Tolkien constructed an actual language for use in his works, and the gibberish you see on the keyboard is that language.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago

Other way around, actually: he started out making constructed languages for fun, realized that doing that properly required inventing the cultural and historical context in which it developed, and then, later, started writing fiction set in that world.