Secret Vice. Tolkien on Invented Languages

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Первое в истории критическое исследование малоизвестного эссе Толкина, в котором рассказывается о том, как изобретение языка повлияло на создание Средиземья и за его пределами, вплоть до "Игры престолов" Джорджа Р.Р. Мартина.
В 1930-х годах Толкин сочинил и прочитал две лекции, в которых исследовал эти два ключевых элемента своей суб-творческой методологии. Вторая из них, основополагающая лекция Эндрю Лэнга 1938-1939 годов "О волшебных историях", которую он прочитал в Университете Сент-Эндрюс в Шотландии, хорошо известна. Но за много лет до этого, в 1931 году, Толкин выступил в литературном обществе с докладом под названием "Хобби для дома", где он впервые представил слушающей публике искусство, с которым он сам столкнулся и которым увлекался с самого раннего детства: "Конструирование воображаемых языков в полностью или в общих чертах для развлечения".
Книга на английском языке.
First ever critical study of Tolkien'
s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin'
s Game of Thrones.
J.R.R. Tolkien'
s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in '
A Secret Vice'
, '
the making of language and mythology are related functions'
'
.
In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 1938-9, '
On Fairy-Stories'
, which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a literary society entitled '
A Hobby for the Home'
, where he unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he had both himself encountered and been involved with since his earliest childhood: '
the construction of imaginary languages in full or outline for amusement'
.
This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as '
A Secret Vice'
in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien'
s art of inventing languages. This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his '
Essay on Phonetic Symbolism'
, goes some way towards re-opening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien'
s mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

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