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 Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2009 9:07 am
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Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2009 9:54 am
to me, setting up a neww langauge is like playing the violin.
it is easy to do poorly, and difficult to do well.
i feel that Tolkein, because of his academic background, truly succeeded at creating a serious other world, with history, geography, myths, songs, language and more.
David Eddings was ambitious, but i was never convinced that his constructions could ever be "real".
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 5:03 am
Yeah, that is like Eragon. However, I think the quality of the book rises again when the author has created an entire, coherent language, not just random words.
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:05 pm
Lydia the English Major Yeah, that is like Eragon. However, I think the quality of the book rises again when the author has created an entire, coherent language, not just random words. 
That's true. When you have a real language, there's less mistakes in repeating words and stuff.
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