A Secret Vice

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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)

External links

• http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/vice.htm