A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages is an extended version of a 1931 lecture given by J.R.R. Tolkien, joined with commentary by scholars Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins.
The first edition was released to hardcover in 2016 by HarperCollins, with a second edition released in 2020, incorporating several revisions of Tolkien's lecture and a previously illegible name. The book's first edition won the Tolkien Society's Award for Best Book in 2017.
Previously, the 1931 lecture (called "A Secret Vice") had been included by Christopher Tolkien as part of The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, released in 2006.
== External link ==
* A Secret Vice at Amazon.com
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