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J.R.R. Tolkien invented languages for his fictional universes — commitment to world-building on hard mode.

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Tolkien built languages like Quenya and Sindarin with grammar, phonology, and historical evolution—more like real languages than codewords. He then wrote stories partly to give those languages a world to live in, reversing the usual “world first” process.

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