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| Mailing List | |
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| Name: | Elfling |
| Date(s): | Sep 5, 1998 - c. 2019 |
| Moderated: | yes |
| Moderators/List Maintainers: | Dorothea Salo |
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| Fandom: | Tolkien |
| URL: | Yahoo! Groupsearlier archive Elfling FAQ Elfling Welcome Message Elfling Home Page Elvish Linguistics Unofficial FAQ Quettar Mirror Archive forum archived messages |
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Elfling, or Elvish Linguistics List, was a Tolkien conlang mailing list. It was affiliated with other related groups such as Tolklang.
The Elfling list exists to further the scholarly study of the languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. The list is not specifically limited to Elvish languages; discussion of other Tolkien-invented languages is encouraged. Elfling also discusses the current state of research into Tolkien's languages.
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The Elfling list exists to further the scholarly study of the languages invented by JRR Tolkien. The list, despite its title, is not specifically limited to Elvish languages; discussion of Mannish and Dwarvish tongues, of the so-called "minor" languages, and of proto-languages derived by reconstruction based on the published languages, is encouraged.Tolkien is the one language creator in modern times, and probably in all times, about whose language creations there is a large body of printed sources; there is also a vast body of material in autograph manuscript that has not as yet been made available for study outside a closed circle of people, and which still awaits scholarly publication. The Elfling list discusses the current state of researches into Tolkien's linguistic creations.
The list operates under the belief that the created languages of J.R.R. Tolkien fully merit scholarly and technical study as language systems in their own right, and as an outstanding example of language-creation for aesthetic and artistic purposes (glossopoesy), quite apart from the study of Tolkien's work within the field of literary criticism. While the technical study of Tolkien's created languages may be of little interest to the reading public, it has great value for linguistics and the history of ideas alike, two fields that have been largely neglected in Tolkien studies.[1]