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83 - J.R.R Tolkien

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The Language of the Trolls

While he was in his teens Tolkien and had his first encounter with a constructed language which was an Amalek. In 1911 while at the King Edward school Tolkien and three friends Rob Gilson, Jeffrey Bark Smith and Christopher Wiseman formed a semi-secret society they called the TCBS. So these people invented languages but couldn't even name their society. Do you want to have a crack? Well BS is obvious. Is it just Tolkien chimes bullshit whatever their names are? Tea club and Bavorian society. No, Barovian. Tea club and Barovian society.

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