Customer Reviews
A Must for LOTR Freaks - By: , 23 Jun 2004 
I bought this for my ten-year old son, who is reading the LOTR trilogy after thoroughly enjoying the films. He is finding it an excellent reference work to accompany the book & is enjoying looking things upin it.
Easy and informative - By: , 07 Dec 2003 
If you are intrestedin the subject & want to know more about it, this book is very nice to start with. The writer doesn't expect you to have any foreknowledge, exept that you have read Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings'.
After you have read it, you have some background information & some base-luggage before you start studying more comprehensive & hard-to-read works like 'An introduction to elvish'.
But if you are a somewhat more studied into the subject, like me & some of my co-rewriters, you'll find that it contains lots of inaccuracies. It is quite incomplete & more then sometimes incorrect.
But still I recommend it to those who're just starting their study as an enrichment of their base-knowledge. But it's absolutely useless & even misleading as a reference.
Outdated - By: , 26 Sep 2003 
As a long time student of Quenya, one of Tolkien's Invented Languages, I have come across The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth quite often, & almost neverin a positive way. Much of the information on Quenya (I am not expert enough on the other languages to judge those parts) is incomplete & outdated. This is not necessariy a fault of the writer, but it does make this book a bad companion for beginning students of Quenya.
I would never recommend this book to anyone
Want to know about Tolkien's languages? Don't buy this Book! - By: , 22 Jul 2003 
Having started to learn elvish & some of tolkiens other languages, I bought this book. At first I thought it was fantastic, but now that I've read more into it, there are a lot of inaccuracies, & I don't feel the author has used the texts written by Tolkien to their full potential. If you are looking to learn elvish/Tolkiens languages, try Jim allen's introduction to elvish. Its a little heavy going but very comprehensive.
In short,if you are really looking to learn about tolkiens languages, don't waste your money on this book- there are better resources out there!
An Intresting but challenging book - By: Jamie, 28 Aug 2002 This book gives a rough view into the languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth. With the Elvish being the primarily subject. It will give the reader a rough, but still educational, introduction into the fantasy worlds.
