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Unohduksen Lapsi
Wow, i found something extremely intresting in that post.
"Even the elves were somewhat alien, as Tolkien used Finnish when he created their language - and used the Finns as a model when created them. They actually have a lot in common with the Elves too, as they live in what is basically a large forest (Finland) east of the Scandinavian mountains ("The Grey Mountains"). Earlier they lived in Northern Russia, in the vast ("Myrkwood"? [Darkwood]) forest just west of the Ural mountains. They are also a very fair (blonde) people, and like the elves they are somewhat silent, melancholic, special and distant. Mysterious, if You like."
Being a Finn and a huge Tolkien fan, i never actually understood it this way. I knew Tolkien created Elvish language by finnish and used other finnish stuff in the book (like gandalf is based on old finnish god) but that text gave me a whole new point of a view to the art of Tolkien, one of my biggest hobbies. Thanks alot for the link.
"Even the elves were somewhat alien, as Tolkien used Finnish when he created their language - and used the Finns as a model when created them. They actually have a lot in common with the Elves too, as they live in what is basically a large forest (Finland) east of the Scandinavian mountains ("The Grey Mountains"). Earlier they lived in Northern Russia, in the vast ("Myrkwood"? [Darkwood]) forest just west of the Ural mountains. They are also a very fair (blonde) people, and like the elves they are somewhat silent, melancholic, special and distant. Mysterious, if You like."
Being a Finn and a huge Tolkien fan, i never actually understood it this way. I knew Tolkien created Elvish language by finnish and used other finnish stuff in the book (like gandalf is based on old finnish god) but that text gave me a whole new point of a view to the art of Tolkien, one of my biggest hobbies. Thanks alot for the link.