6 Film and TV Languages You Can Actually Speak

3. Lord Of The Rings: Quenya & Sindarin

Fifth Element
New Line Cinema

The big daddy of intensely detailed fantasy languages, J. R. R. Tolkien devised more than one variant of Elvish for the population of Middle Earth, choosing to exercise his passion for philology by creating the strands known as Quenya and Sindarin.

The former is the language of the High Elves of Eldamar, and the latter for the Grey Elves of Telerin. Combining Finnish, Welsh, Greek, and Latin languages into one big melting pot for his pointy-eared fair folk, the result is something quite beautiful, and sounds remarkably ancient considering its relatively new creation.

Tolkien didn't stop there, with plenty of other languages formed under his span of work from The Hobbit to The Silmarillion. Quenya and Sindarin are the ones he devoted most of his life to, however - and the result shows in their complex, eloquently formed final forms. Praise be to the God of all things fantasy.

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