The Linguistic Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien

The Linguistic Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien: Inventing Languages for Middle-earth ‘In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…’ begins Tolkien’s epic adventure The Hobbit. But where did the word hobbit come from? (An old English word for hole dweller? It sounds real, that’s for sure.) The word is in fact a neologism – a newly […]