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Arktik

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Arktik (or Arctic[1]) was the language spoken by the folk of the North Pole: the Red Elves, the Polar Bear, and others.[2]

[edit] Comment

Arctic Q(u)enya is a language name invented by Tolkien linguists for the Arktik Quenya/Qenya-style sentence appearing in Letters from Father Christmas.[3][4][5]

[edit] References

  1. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien (ed.), Letters from Father Christmas, "Christmas 1937"
  2. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Baillie Tolkien (ed.), Letters from Father Christmas, "November 1929"
  3. ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Notes on Óre" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 41, July 2000, p. 16; J.R.R. Tolkien, "Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals and Related Writings — Part One" (edited by Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, p. 40
  4. ↑ Helge Fauskanger, "The Quenya Corpus" at Ardalambion (accessed 7 November 2011)
  5. ↑ Ryszard Derdzinski, Tolkien's Linguistic Writings and Drafts at Elvish.org (accessed 7 November 2011)
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