Tolkien

The perception of order in chaos is a function of linguistics, as it is of all sciences. At rare times the development of order becomes and act of creation pure and simple. It was so when J.R.R. Tolkien produced, out of his vocation of linguistics, the literature of Middle-Earth: The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings.
Language is so integral to culture that a linguist can reconstruct a culture from its language just as a biologist can reconstruct an animal from a bone. Tolkien’s Production of the invented language called Quenya compelled him to depict the Elvish cultures of The Silmarillion.
Tolkien spent much of his youth involved in learning, studying, and creating languages. His mother introduced him to Latin, French, and German. While at school, he was taught or taught himself Greek, Middle English, Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Old Norse (Old Icelandic), Gothic, modern, and medieval Welsh, Finnish, Spanish, and Italian. Other languages of which he had ...