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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on J.R.R. Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
Inventing Languages. Tolkien’s love of languages went beyond his proficiency in multiple Germanic, Slavonic, Romance, and Celtic languages. A professional philologist, Tolkien invented multiple languages for his Middle-earth universe, each with their own system of characters, grammar, and vocabulary.
A Way with Words. Through his job with the Oxford English Dictionary, Tolkien spent much of 1919-1920 detailing the history and etymology of words beginning with “w” and of Germanic origins—including the words waggle, walnut, and walrus.