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A secret vice : Tolkien on invented langauges

Tolkien, J. R. R.2016
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This is an annotated edition of Tolkien's seminal 1930s essay 'A Secret Vice', in which he first revealed his 'vice' of inventing languages in his fantasy fiction. Tolkien's linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them.
Main title:
A secret vice : Tolkien on invented langauges / by J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Dimitra Fimi & Andrew Higgins.
Imprint:
London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2016.
Collation:
lxv, 157 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780008131395 (hbk)0008131392 (hbk)9780008131401 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
824.912 TOL824.912
LC class:
PR6039.O32
Language:
English
BRN:
292834
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