Sindarin as a linguistic phenomenon

This graduate work is called “The Elvish languages as linguistic phenomena”. Here we have examined two of the most popular Elvish languages and their predecessor that were created by professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Every year there appear more and more fans of his great works and mostly all of them are interested in his created languages and want to learn and speak them. Moreover, a lot of scholars are attracted by them and they made researches on this topic.

Introduction…………………………………………….3
Chapter 1. Theoretical aspects of the investigation of the Elvish languages………………………………………………………...5
The outer history: J.R.R. Tolkien as a philologist…………...5
The history of the Elvish scholarship………………………..9
The classification of the Elvish languages…………………11
Chapter 2. Primitive Elvish as a linguistic phenomenon……...17
2.1 Structure of words in Primitive Elvish……………………..17
2.2 Phonology of Primitive Elvish……………………………..28
2.3 Grammar of Primitive Elvish………………………………31
Chapter 3. Quenya as a linguistic phenomenon……………….34
3.1 Phonology of Quenya……………………………………....34
3.2 Grammar of Quenya………………………………………..37
Chapter 4. Sindarin as a linguistic phenomenon……………...48
4.1 Phonology of Primitive Elvish……………………………..48
4.2 Grammar of Primitive Elvish……………………………....51
Conclusion………………………………………………….….64
Bibliography…………………………………………………..67
Appendixes…………………………………………………….69