The ultimate nerd book, but great for Tolkien fans, linquiphiles, and GMs.

The perfect thing for someone who wants to speak some basic elvish or Tolkien fans. This book contains how middle earth’s history effected it’s languages, elvish vocabulary and grammar rules, and a whole 100 pages full of names and terms in LOTR, the Hobbit, and the Silmarillion and what they all mean. I haven’t read the Silmarillion yet but I herd it is a pretty hard read and I would think that this would be a really helpful book to have on hand

Good. If you like:
1) Tolkien
2) Linguistics

Moreso #1 than #2.
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Very cool non-fiction book on the development and real-world roots of Tolkien's languages. A good guide for interested parties.

This is a fine little introductory book, even though it's now somewhat dated given the more recent publications of more of Tolkien's own language work.

Ah, the source of my secret note-passing in my middle & high school days. . .

Kind of like a textbook for a language class. At least that’s how I took it and read it.

Wished it was a little more in-depth of all the languages. Instead of just listing them towards the end (before the dictionary).

Fun read if you are a Tolkien nerd.

The Appendices for people who like to read everything twice

Favourite sentence: "Prepositional elements come at the end of Quenya words..."

Summarizes the now out-dated and little information of the "pre History of Middle-earth time", contains several mistakes, though.
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An illuminating companion piece for Tolkien fanatics.

An interesting insight into how Tolkien developed his Middle-Earth languages, all fourteen of them. It’s not as in-depth as I would have liked. There’s a dictionary of words at the end which isn’t exactly intuitive to use. On the whole an interesting read.