Duolingo, a popular online language-learning platform, offers a course in High Valyrian. From the archive
WINNING 38 Emmy awards is a good measure of success. “Game of Thrones” garnered that many for its portrayal of a world of sex, violence and politics. Westeros and Essos seem so real that some viewers could imagine moving there. Part of that detail has been the creation of the richest linguistic universe since J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
Tolkien was a linguistic obsessive who spoke Greek, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Gothic as a child and went on to study many other tongues. He started inventing languages in his teens, and said he created Middle Earth to help this, not the other way round. The most developed were two forms of Elvish, called Quenya and Sindarin.
In his book Mr Peterson describes his bafflement at the fictional languages of his youth. The “Star Wars” films featured foreign “languages” that were nothing more than a series of weird sounds. He wondered how on the planet of Tatooine the bounty hunter in “Return of the Jedi” could express “50,000—no less” as.
Creating words is the easy part; anyone can string together nonsense syllables. But Mr Peterson, like Tolkien, took the trouble to give his words etymologies and cousins, so that the word for “feud” is related to the words “blood” and “fight”.
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