You won't find a course in Elvish or Orkish listed in the Banner course catalog, but "Lord of the Rings" fans seeking an expert in J. R. R. Tolkien's invented languages need look no further than ...

J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings, was obsessed with languages both real and fictional. He constructed several languages for the various cultures of his Middle-earth stories, most ...

Well, not real in that they’re fictional languages spoken by fictional peoples. But what makes a fictional language an actual language and not merely a convincing combination of sounds? Linguist John ...

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is getting Elvish language DLC, but it's charging for it because the devs had to train the game's voice actors to speak it. It's probably a safe bet that most of you ...