An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction
Languages, Myths and History
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In 'A Secret Vice', he wrote about the desirability of an artificial language for international communication. The comments he made late in life, however, were more negative.
In 1956, in a draft letter to Mr. Thompson, he wrote: 'Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, etc etc are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends'.
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Tolkien explained that mythology is what gives a language an 'individual flavour'.
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Tolkien held a belief that there was a connection between languages and mythologies throughout his career. In 'A Secret Vice', he observed that 'for perfect construction of an art-language it is found necessary to construct at least in outline a mythology concomitant', and that the construction of a language 'will breed a mythology'.
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Humphrey Carpenter'ın The Authorized Biography kitabından:
Carpenter remarks that he developed a language influenced by Finnish 'to a degree of complexity' by 1915, so that it became possible for him to write poems in it.
Tolkien felt that this language (which later became Quenya) needed a history and mythology, and already then decided that this was the language spoken by the Elves who his invented character, the mariner Earendil, saw on his journeys.
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Tolkien ve dil üretme merakı
Tolkien's earliest attempts to create a new language go back to the time when he was at school. His interest in inventing languages did not disappear when he became a student at Oxford, but grew together with his linguistic expertise.
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Theoderic I ile Theoden'in karakteristik benzerlikleri
One of the most important similarities between LOTR and Jordanes's history is the parallelism between the accounts of the death of Theoderic I and King Theoden.
Like Theoderic, Theoden is old when he dies and is succeeded by a young man from his family. (...) Like Theoderic, he is found 'where the dead lay thickest, as happens with brave men'.
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Karanlık güçler ile Hun benzetmesi
In LOTR, the men of Gondor and their allies fight against what is described as the forces of darkness, monsters and beasts, such as the Lord of the Nazgul, the legions of Morgul and the mumakil.
There is a tradition of portraying the Huns in a similar way, as a blindly destructive, irrational force, an embodiment of evil and a threat to the civilised world.
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"Batı'nın medeniyeti Doğululardan saklandı"
There is a number of features in Tolkien's description of the battle of Pelennor Fields which can be illuminated through comparison with Jordanes.
One of the most interesting is the idea that in both battles 'the civilisation of the West was preserved from the "Easterlings"'.
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Humans possess free will which is essential for their nature as moral beings. Evil arises when they use their free will to reject good and is absent when they choose good.
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