{"id":68399,"date":"2013-01-16T02:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T07:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=68399"},"modified":"2013-01-16T02:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T07:54:52","slug":"a-linguistic-analysis-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2013\/01\/16\/68399-a-linguistic-analysis-of-the-hobbit-an-unexpected-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"A Linguistic Analysis Of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain.jpg\" class=\"no-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-68400 no-lazyload\" alt=\"Gwaith-i-Phethdain\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Gwaith-i-Phethdain-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/category\/gwaith\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gwaith-i-Phethdain<\/a>, or the\u00a0Fellowship of the Word-smiths, is a part of the Polish website Elendilion.pl, run by our friend and Tolkien geek <em>Richard &#8220;Galadhorn&#8221;\u00a0Derdzinski<\/em>. \u00a0Since the early days of the internet when information was hard to come by and to share, he has led the effort in analyzing the languages in the <strong>Lord of the Rings<\/strong> films from 2001 through 2004, and beginning last year, he&#8217;s once again embarked on analyzing the languages in <strong>The Hobbit<\/strong> films.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Richard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>The way to find the texts in the languages of Middle-earth was difficult.\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"color: #808080;\">First of course was the careful and watchful hearing in the cinemas. Richard traveled far from Poland to Ireland to watch the movie 2 weeks before the Polish premiere. T<\/em><em style=\"color: #808080;\">he first results were published thanks to the work of Miriam &#8220;Niranare&#8221; Simon of the German forum Mellyn Lammath and Cerebrum of the Hungarian website Parf-en-Ereglas.\u00a0<\/em><em style=\"color: #808080;\">Then the international community of the Tolkien linguists with Helge K. Fauskanger (of Norse Ardalambion) and Andrew Higgins (of Elfling list) helped to find the detailed explanation of David Salo&#8217;s conlang forms.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The dialogues, together with lyrics and inscriptions, in the languages of Tolkien were created for the movies by <strong>David Salo<\/strong>, an American linguist.\u00a0Richard&#8217;s analysis is a work in progress, continually updated based on suggestions from fans contributed via comments to his blog-style posts, and the\u00a0results of his work on The Hobbit thus far can be found as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/2012\/12\/24\/g-i-p-report-complete-analysis-of-the-sindarin-dialogs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis of the Sindarin dialogues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/2013\/01\/06\/g-i-p-report-hobbits-quenya-orkish-and-khuzdl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis of the Quenya, Khuzd\u00fbl\/Neo-Khuzd\u00fbl, and Orkish\/Gundabad dialect of the Black Speech dialogues<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Analysis of the lyrics in the soundtrack can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/2012\/12\/11\/g-i-p-report-the-hobbit-soundtrack-linguistic-survey\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/2013\/01\/10\/g-i-p-report-new-lyrics-from-the-hobbit-soundtrack\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elendilion.pl\/2012\/12\/20\/g-i-p-report-the-hobbit-summary-to-be-continued\/\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis of the runic inscriptions<\/a> (scroll down to the section titled INSCRIPTIONS).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The analyses of the dialogues, lyrics and inscriptions in the Lord of the Rings films can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/elvish.org\/gwaith\/movie.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Elvish.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Elendilion.pl is also famous for the investigation of the oldest ancestry of the Tolkien family. 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