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David Salo is an American linguist who worked on the languages of J. R. R. Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, expanding the languages (particularly Sindarin) by building on vocabulary already known from published works, and defining some languages that previously had a very small published vocabulary.
Sep 23, 2022 · David I. Salo (born February, 1969) is a linguist who worked on languages for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films series, translating songs, dialogue, and inscriptions into Quenya and Sindarin, and developing or expanding languages for Men, Dwarves and Orcs.
David Salo, a graduate student in linguistics, became interested in the invented languages of J.R.R. Tolkien at the age of six or seven – some 25 years ago. At that time, he began learning to read and write Tolkien’s runic script from reading his books, starting with “The Hobbit.”
David Clark Salo is a swimming coach based in Southern California, United States. He was the head coach of the men's and women's swimming team at University of Southern California, as well as USC's club team, Trojan Swim Club.
David I. Salo (born February, 1969) is an American linguist and student of J.R.R. Tolkien's constructed languages. At Macalester College in Minnesota, Salo studied Greek, Latin, and linguistics, which stimulated his mastery of Tolkien's languages.
Sep 22, 2022 · A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings is a 2004 book by linguist David Salo. It reproduces all extant Sindarin fragments from published sources - both the easily available ones and the more obscure ones from linguistic journals such as Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon .
Sep 3, 2013 · In this piece on his blog Midgardsmal, linguist David Salo writes about how he derived various Orkish dialects used in the Lord of the Rings films from his own extrapolations of Black Speech, and about his thoughts on the approach Sauron might have taken in putting together Black Speech itself.
