You won't find a course in Elvish or Orkish listed in the Banner course catalog, but "Lord of the Rings" fans seeking an expert in J. R. R. Tolkien's invented languages need look no further than ...

Elves have been a staple of fantasy roleplaying games for ages beyond those many of us today have witnessed. Through the years, so many mystical elements have been both uncovered and attached to them ...

On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years. The Lord of the Rings was still ...

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is getting Elvish language DLC, but it's charging for it because the devs had to train the game's voice actors to speak it. It's probably a safe bet that most of you ...

Well, not real in that they’re fictional languages spoken by fictional peoples. But what makes a fictional language an actual language and not merely a convincing combination of sounds? Linguist John ...