A Secret Vice
From Tolkien Gateway
A Secret Vice is the title of a lecture held by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1930 at an Esperanto congress. It deals with constructed languages in general, and the relation of a mythology to its language. Tolkien contrasts auxiliary languages with artistic languages constructed for aesthetic pleasure.
References
- Tolkien, J.R.R. "A Secret Vice" in The Monsters and the Critics, 1983 (ISBN 0-04-809019-0)
