#157- Tolkien's The Silmarillion Part 1
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Tolkien's Elvish
There are nerds out there like gente who just geek out on it and draw pictures of it all. And I understand that, but not I. Well, I want to,. I want to dig into it. The bits of it. So this is, do you have a hard copy? I do not. I'm doing digital. This would be the first one. It's actually in an actual language that nobody spoke but him. Yeah. But a cool thing about Tolkien is that by profession, he's a philologist. He is a professor of language. He actually was working out these languages just as a hobby..."I don't know how to pronounce these elvish names
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