Welcome to the Signum Fellowship, our shared habitat for personal learning and enrichment provided by a number of organizations!
May 2025
Showcase
Showcase lecture for
Tolkien’s Invented Languages in The Lord of the Rings
in the
SPACE Showcase: May 3, 2025.
Tolkien is famous for his invented languages such as Sindarin, Quenya, and Khuzdul but our knowledge of them in his lifetime was almost entirely through the way they were used within The Lord of the Rings.
In this lecture, a taste of the month-long SPACE module of the same name, we will go on a puzzle-solving adventure, gleaning what we can about the languages from hints in The Fellowship of the Ring. We'll look, in particular, at the names of places as well as a couple of examples of Elvish poetry and see just how much of the languages we can work out ourselves!
In this lecture, a taste of the month-long SPACE module of the same name, we will go on a puzzle-solving adventure, gleaning what we can about the languages from hints in The Fellowship of the Ring. We'll look, in particular, at the names of places as well as a couple of examples of Elvish poetry and see just how much of the languages we can work out ourselves!
Required Texts
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
The showcase lecture is a one-hour sample session.
For more information about the full module and when it will be offered next in SPACE, go to the
Tolkien’s Invented Languages in The Lord of the Rings
module page.
Check out Current and Upcoming offerings from:
