"I should have preferred to write [The Lord of the Rings] in 'Elvish'. But, of course, such a work has been edited and only as much 'language' has been left in as I thought would be stomached by readers. I now find that many [readers] would have liked [to see] more." —Tolkien in a 1955 letter to his publisher after the release of The Lord of the Rings Elvish was a term used to refer to the languages spoken by Elves in Middle-earth in J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, of which Quenya and Sindarin…
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