A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages: J.R.R. Tolkien Book cover type:Trade Paperback they decide to take fate

they decide to take fate into their own hands—no matter the cost

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to risk everything on a desperate gamble with the very supernatural forces they once fled

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A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages: J.R.R. Tolkien Book cover type:Trade Paperback they decide to take fate*UNSIGNED* J. R. R. Tolkiens linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in A Secret Vice, the making of language and mythology are related functions. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his