A Secret Vice
A Secret Vice is the title of a lecture written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1931, given at a conference. Some twenty years later, Tolkien revised the manuscript for a second presentation. It deals with constructed languages in general and the relation of a mythology to its language. Tolkien contrasts international auxiliary languages with artistic languages constructed for aesthetic pleasure.Tolkien also discusses phonaesthetics, citing Greek, Finnish and Welsh as examples of "languages which have a very characteristic and in their different ways beautiful word-form".
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A Secret Vice
A Secret Vice is the title of a lecture written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1931, given at a conference. Some twenty years later, Tolkien revised the manuscript for a second presentation. It deals with constructed languages in general and the relation of a mythology to its language. Tolkien contrasts international auxiliary languages with artistic languages constructed for aesthetic pleasure.Tolkien also discusses phonaesthetics, citing Greek, Finnish and Welsh as examples of "languages which have a very characteristic and in their different ways beautiful word-form".
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A Secret Vice is the title of ...... e, a private sense of fitness.
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Un vice secret (A Secret Vice) ...... que huit passages de noldorin.
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«Un vicio secreto» (“A Secret ...... «Nieninque», y
* «Earendel».
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2016-04-07
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A Secret Vice is the title of ...... ent ways beautiful word-form".
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Un vice secret (A Secret Vice) ...... epuis dans plusieurs recueils.
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«Un vicio secreto» (“A Secret ...... así como tres poemas en qenya:
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A Secret Vice
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Un vice secret
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Un vicio secreto
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