A Gateway to Sindarin

A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is an exhaustive study by David Salo of J.R.R. Tolkien's Sindarin Elvish language. Published in 2005 by University of Utah Press, it stands as the most thorough, single-publication guide to Tolkien's extant material on Sindarin, his most developed constructed language, so far. It draws from all published writings of Tolkien, but not those yet unpublished at the time.Preface, pg. xv
Salo gives a history of Sindarin's development, and then guides the reader through Sindarin's phonetics, scripts, evolving phonology, word mutations, word formation, parts of speech, and syntax and sentence structure. At the end are six appendices providing all official Sindarin vocabulary and other data that were available at the time of publication.
==External links==
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==See also==
*Elves
*Elvish languages
*Sindar
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Secondary literature
Category:Books on language
Category:2007 publications