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Confession: for a long time I never understood why Tolkien had to make up a language to go with The Lord of the Rings. It felt a little bit like trying to tell an adventure story while getting bogged down in the details of imaginary corn law. But when the Daily Wire asked me to invent a new language for the Pendragon series, I instantly understood Tolkien in a whole new way. So when a listener asked me to comment on the idea that world building essentially is language building, I was all in. Here's what I learned from my first time language building, or "conlanging."
Check out more behind-the-scenes footage from Daily Wire: https://x.com/dailywireplus/status/1717656941122461910
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Confession: for a long time I never understood why Tolkien had to make up a language to go with The Lord of the Rings. It felt a little bit like trying to tell an adventure story while getting bogged down in the details of imaginary corn law. But when the Daily Wire asked me to invent a new language for the Pendragon series, I instantly understood Tolkien in a whole new way. So when a listener asked me to comment on the idea that world building essentially is language building, I was all in. Here's what I learned from my first time language building, or "conlanging."
Check out more behind-the-scenes footage from Daily Wire: https://x.com/dailywireplus/status/1717656941122461910
Order Osweald Bera: https://ancientlanguage.com/vergil-press/osweald-bera/
Register for Spring courses at The Ancient Language Institute https://ancientlanguage.com/youngheretics/
Order Light of the Mind, Light of the World (and rate it five stars): https://a.co/d/2QccOfM
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