I know that it is elvish in the movie but what is it in real life?
Thanks
2007-01-28 14:06:31 · 8 answers · asked by lunaderosas 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
To the people who answered first its not gibberish so don't say that it is. Do research before making a judgement. And the language is called elvish not elven!!
2007-01-28 14:14:13 · update #1
::sigh:: Okay fine, the logical side of my brain believes you. But the fantastical side is still in denial!! My dreams have apparently been crushed so just let me have my fun...
And thanks to those who corrected me without making fun of me!!
2007-01-29 10:46:29 · update #2
More than one language is spoken by the elves. The languages are indeed called 'Elvish" as a group. The best known and most extensive are Quenya and Sindarin. They are 'constructed' languages - they were made, and are not natural. J. R. R. Tolkein created them as the first step in writing LOR. He was a philologist and Pfrofessor of Languages at Oxford. He also devised the script used to write the languages. He used Finnish as a base for what he did, so I suppose you could call that the closest in real life.
2007-01-28 14:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"It is only a movie" lol yeah... with a little detial that it was taken from a book, whose author was proficient in linguistics and who based the whole story on the languages he had created.
There are several "families" of Elves. And each one has a special kind of language. Tho most know ones are Quenya and Sindarin.
Check the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvish
2007-01-28 14:33:21 · answer #2 · answered by kamelåså 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I was unaware that they used an actual language, but if they did, I would guess that they had used some resurrected form of old English (that DOES NOT mean Shakespearean, which is early modern English, it means English from before the Norman invasion at the end of the 11th century,--a.k.a. the English of Beowulf)
Oh and maybe there is some Gaelic thrown in for good measure?? Although probably not...
2007-01-28 15:13:19 · answer #3 · answered by 4ever learning 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is Elvin, a language created for the characters by the man who wrote the original books. J.R.R. Tolkien was a linguistics professor.
2007-01-28 14:11:50 · answer #4 · answered by Cosmic I 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
its not a real language...
Its gibberish, its called Elven not Elvish
2007-01-28 14:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by onewhosubmits 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
Gibberish. It's a movie for Gods sake!!
2007-01-28 14:09:33 · answer #6 · answered by Eyota Xin 3 · 0⤊ 6⤋
.It is a rare and beautiful dialect of the Flemish language.
Or Elfin pig latin
2007-01-28 14:10:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
I believe it's "Elven."
2007-01-28 14:56:23 · answer #8 · answered by Smarty Pants 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋