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Fantasy Languages

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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:54 am


	to me, setting up a neww langauge is like playing the violin. it is easy to do poorly, and difficult to do well. i feel that Tolkein, because of his academic background, truly succeeded at creating a serious other world, with history, geography, myths, songs, language and more. David Eddings was ambitious, but i was never convinced that his constructions could ever be "real".

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:03 am


	Yeah, that is like Eragon. However, I think the quality of the book rises again when the author has created an entire, coherent language, not just random words.

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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:05 pm


	Lydia the English Major Yeah, that is like Eragon. However, I think the quality of the book rises again when the author has created an entire, coherent language, not just random words. That's true. When you have a real language, there's less mistakes in repeating words and stuff.