Elvish

During the Third Age the term "Elvish" usually referred specifically to Sindarin since it was the most common vernacular of the Elves. Major splits and variations were a result of the Great Journey of the Elves in the First Age , and the other migrations of the following millennia. The Elves made use of the Tengwar and Cirth scripts for their languages. Tolkien used the Roman alphabet to write the names and words of Elvish origin in his works. Sindarin and Quenya have in most aspects very much the same rules in his spelling of the names. Tolkien used the Roman letters having in mind "neutral" values, close to their original Latin ones: open, consistent and straightforward pronunciation, without glides. It's important to remember that, while most samples of the Elvish language are written with the Latin alphabet, within the fiction the languages were written using Tengwar , or occasionally carved in Cirth . Tolkien envisioned many versions during the process of writing, even that Elves were taught speech by Oromë . In the Lhammas , Tolkien provides this relationship. After Tolkien's time, others have invented Elvish languages in their own fiction. Some of them borrow elements from Tolkien, or simply retain similar structure and appearance. Darnassian and Thalassian , the languages of the Elves in the Warcraft universe. Common Elven , the language of the surface Elves and Ssamath of the Dark Elves or Drow of Dungeons & Dragons settings Eltharin , the language of the elves of Warhammer Fan-Eltharin , the language of the Wood Elves Tar-Eltharin , the language of the Sea Elves and High Elves Drukh-Eltharin , the language of the Dark Elves Elvish language of Andrzej Sapkowski's Hexer saga, based on Welsh and English The Ancient Language of the elves in Eragon , also spoken by the riders. Raymond E. Feist uses the words Eldar , Caledhel and Moredhel for races of his Elves in Midkemia; the latter two are perfect Sindarin for "light elf" and "black elf" although as such, they haven't appeared in Tolkien's works (calben and morben are the actual Sindarin terms). J.R.R. Tolkien was always fascinated with words and how languages worked, and by phonoesthetics . Tolkien had experimented with inventing languages during his youth long before creating his legendarium . Modelling Qenya on Finnish and Goldogrin on Welsh, Tolkien created several languages for the Elves to complement his books set in his fictional mythology. His interest was primarily philological, and he said his stories grew out of his languages. Indeed, the languages were the first thing Tolkien ever created for his mythos.