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JrrTolkien has constructed a number of languages to support the variety of races in LordOfTheRings. The elvish languages are perhaps some of the most beautiful constructed languages in the world (I think).
Here is a reference TolkienLanguages? : http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/
-- JustMab
Isn't there a suggestion that the book(s) actually arose as an excuse to work on the languages? I refer you to his essay A Secret Vice
See also: QuenyaLanguage, SindarinLanguage
There is also a suggestion that WelshLanguage was a source of inspiration for Elvish. Finnish, actually.
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