Posted: September 15, 1999 at 03:13:58: by Michael Martinez
: Also, remember the length of life here. In the real world
: people die in a relatively short time, there are no people
: around who spoke latin when it was still spoken and was
: "alive". In the case of elves, it doesn't "evolve" into other
: languages because elves basically live forever. Elves like
: Ingwë have been around for at least hundreds of thousands of
: years, maybe more, they aren't going to start changing the
: language mid-way through life. I think that has a big part to
: the whole problem. Actually, you should read what Tolkien had to say about the way the Elves deliberately changed their language, especially the Noldor, in THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH. It's rather surprising. : Jon
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