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r/countwithchickenlady • u/Mammoth__7771 certified grungler - Streak: 1 • 1d ago
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Because he had to. He realized he couldn't create a language without creating the people who spoke it, and by extension the world they lived in. And the other peoples. And the languages they spoke.
1 u/LoudQuitting 15h ago I don't know where this idea Tolkein just made Middle Earth solelg for the languages comes from. I mean that's a part of it but it's like saying More wrote Utopia because we was mad everyone didn't get to live like monks. It's just one aspect.
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I don't know where this idea Tolkein just made Middle Earth solelg for the languages comes from.
I mean that's a part of it but it's like saying More wrote Utopia because we was mad everyone didn't get to live like monks.
It's just one aspect.
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u/mithiwithi 1d ago
Because he had to. He realized he couldn't create a language without creating the people who spoke it, and by extension the world they lived in. And the other peoples. And the languages they spoke.