Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Gateway to Sindarin (review)

Gateway to Sindarin (review) Book Reviews Gateway to Sindarin, by David Salo. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2004. xvi, 438 pp. $49.95 (hardcover) ISBN 0874808006. This ambitious and helpful book pits itself against numerous predetermined and fundamental disadvantages. Through no fault of its own, the book is handicapped in that it attempts to generate a clear snapshot of an elusive entity that is, in more than one way, a moving target. The author's choice of the word "Gateway" [Sindarin Annon] for the title, and for the cover graphic, shows a keen awareness of the necessary limitations on the project: it must constitute a beginning only. First, it can be convincingly argued that, considering the development of Tolkien's languages throughout Tolkien's own life, there is not, was not, nor ever has there been, such a fixed entity as what Salo, in this book, calls Classical Sindarin, or what general readers of Lord of the Rings might call Third-Age Sindarin--namely, the Sindarin of the story which many readers perceive as the central one of Tolkien's legendarium. Sindarin (or Gnomish, or Noldorin) maintained a protean elusiveness both (a) throughout its author's life (as he tinkered, or Niggled if you will, with it), http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tolkien Studies West Virginia University Press

Gateway to Sindarin (review)

Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif
Tolkien Studies , Volume 3 (1) – May 9, 2006
Download PDF
8 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/west-virginia-university-press/gateway-to-sindarin-review-ybvD5vErVp

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
West Virginia University Press
Copyright
Copyright © 2006 West Virginia University Press.
ISSN
1547-3163
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Book Reviews Gateway to Sindarin, by David Salo. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2004. xvi, 438 pp. $49.95 (hardcover) ISBN 0874808006. This ambitious and helpful book pits itself against numerous predetermined and fundamental disadvantages. Through no fault of its own, the book is handicapped in that it attempts to generate a clear snapshot of an elusive entity that is, in more than one way, a moving target. The author's choice of the word "Gateway" [Sindarin Annon] for the title, and for the cover graphic, shows a keen awareness of the necessary limitations on the project: it must constitute a beginning only. First, it can be convincingly argued that, considering the development of Tolkien's languages throughout Tolkien's own life, there is not, was not, nor ever has there been, such a fixed entity as what Salo, in this book, calls Classical Sindarin, or what general readers of Lord of the Rings might call Third-Age Sindarin--namely, the Sindarin of the story which many readers perceive as the central one of Tolkien's legendarium. Sindarin (or Gnomish, or Noldorin) maintained a protean elusiveness both (a) throughout its author's life (as he tinkered, or Niggled if you will, with it),

Journal

Tolkien Studies – West Virginia University Press

Published: May 9, 2006

There are no references for this article.