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Admetus t1_ja2vzff wrote

He realised that language is so closely related to those things he basically developed his own Norse/Celtic epic to carry his invented language!

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ThePrussianGrippe t1_ja3xddy wrote

And to make up for the fact there wasn’t much in the way of surviving Anglo myths since the saxons introduced themselves on the island.

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E_Snap t1_ja2p3t2 wrote

That dingus went about it all backwards, what was he thinking?

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Wurm42 t1_ja2sk5t wrote

"I need to do something SERIOUSLY escapist if I'm going to stay sane in the trenches of Flanders."

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Card_Zero t1_ja369xt wrote

For a certain value of sane.

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Wurm42 t1_ja3a7t1 wrote

Granted, it took a certain pre-existing level of obsessive nerdiness to set out to create an elvish language from scratch in a bomb shelter.

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