Doriathrin

From Langmaker

Conlang	Doriathrin
Author	J.R.R. Tolkien
Year Began	N/A
Language Type	fictional diachronic language
Lexicon Size	80
Etymologies	Yes
Grammar	Yes
Sample Texts	Yes
Primer	No

Doriathrin was written by J.R.R. Tolkien as artlang]].

Uniqueness

The native tongue of Lúthien Tinúviel, the elf-maid who loved a mortal. Possible dialect of Ilkorin. Helge writes, "Some competent people feel that the Doriathrin of the Etymologies - which is the language this article is concerned with - is no longer a 'valid' tongue in the mythos as elderly Tolkien had come to see his linguistic scenario. According to this view, the language of Doriath should now be imagined merely as a particularly archaic variant of the Sindarin we know from LotR, and the Doriathrin of the Etymologies must largely be dismissed as an obsolete notion - except for some names that Tolkien evidently transferred to Sindarin as he scrapped Doriathrin as a separate language. No quite definite conclusion can be reached in this matter."

Language sources

Tolkien's languages were derived by his phonoaesthetics and out of Elvish etymology.

External link

http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/doriath.htm - Helge Kåre Fauskanger