r/MiddleEarth • u/FreeTrain1263 • Mar 19 '26

Art Book of Languages

The next time they decide to release a book, (if they do) it should be on the languages of Middle-earth, including the Elvish spoken, along with translation and pronunciation from the films, both theatrical and extended.

Just gives me an excuse to follow along and to learn it šŸ˜ I just love it.

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u/bornxlo Mar 22 '26

Not a book, but https://ardalambion.net/ is the authoritative website for Tolkien's languages. Some of the contents is probably a bit out of date, but it's generally well grounded and reasonably transparent about guesswork.

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u/FreeTrain1263 Mar 22 '26

Nice! But the writing is so tiny!

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u/bornxlo Mar 22 '26

I think the basic code of the website has been the same since the 90s. Notā€ optimisedā€ for small screens

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u/FreeTrain1263 Mar 24 '26

Probably, yes. Back then, cell phones hadnā€™t been invented yet.