A Secret ViceFirst ever critical study of Tolkiens little known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones. J. R. R. Tolkiens linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in A Secret Vice,

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