Original sentence: ) was to him largely a way of presenting his masterwork: the Elvish languages.), and the constructed languages of the author and linguist J.The very well known fiction written by Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, etc.They were designed to use a vocabulary mostly based on existing vocabularies (in the case of Esperanto, Ido, and many others this vocabulary was mostly Latin or Romance based; in the case of Volapük it was mostly Teutonic).They were grammatically comparatively simple, being mostly isolating or only slightly flexional.They were very regular.Tolkien (Quenya, Sindarin, etc
Edited sentence: " (The Letters of J.) was to him largely a way of presenting his masterwork: the 'elvish' languages.), and the constructed languages of the author and linguist JRR Tolkien (Quenya, Sindarin, etc.- They were designed to use a vocabulary mostly based on existing vocabularies (in the case of Esperanto, Ido, and many others this vocabulary was mostly Latin or Romance based; in the case of Volapük it was mostly Teutonic).- They were grammatically comparatively simple, being mostly isolating or only slightly flexional.- They were very regular.Composition in existing languages (such as prose and poetry) is a recognised artform, as is musical composition.Creative linguistics, although it is not generally recognised as such, is an artform; but it is quite unusual in its form.The creation of new languages and composition in them should be viewed in the same light.The very well known fiction written by Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarilion, etc.This composition is bounded by defined systems - languages in the case of poetry and prose, musical systems in the case of music.Tolkien, pp.Were a composer to design an entirely new system of music and then compose in it, that would probably be recognised as art just as if s/he had composed in an existing musical system