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- Season 2 The Case for Fan Fiction
- Season 2 Afrofuturism From Books to Blockbusters
- Season 2 How Fictional Pandemics Reflect the Real Thing
- Season 2 Why We Still Love Little Women, 150 Years Later
- Season 2 The Byronic Hero: Isn’t it Byronic?
- Season 2 The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien
- Season 2 War and Peace and Everything Else
- Season 2 The It’s Lit! Musical Episode
- Season 2 The Fiery History of Banned Books
- Season 2 The (Stephen) King of Horror
- Season 2 Are Graphic Novels... Novels?
- Season 2 Dune, The Most Important Sci Fi Series Ever?
- Season 2 Anne Rice, The Queen of Literary Monsters
- Season 2 Literary Icons You NEED to Know From the Harlem Renaissance
- Season 2 How Do You Write a Bestseller?
It's Lit! - Season 2 Episode 6 The Constructed Languages of JRR Tolkien
9.00 6 minutes Tolkien is widely regarded as the most influential author on the fantasy genre… period. But one of the less-discussed aspects of his work is the way Tolkien used constructed language in his writing. Nowadays authors are constantly making up words and languages for the worlds they build, but Tolkien was unique in that he constructed languages first, and then created worlds so his fictional languages would have somewhere to live.
