Elves have been a staple of fantasy roleplaying games for ages beyond those many of us today have witnessed. Through the years, so many mystical elements have been both uncovered and attached to them ...

You won't find a course in Elvish or Orkish listed in the Banner course catalog, but "Lord of the Rings" fans seeking an expert in J. R. R. Tolkien's invented languages need look no further than ...

On Nov. 29, 1931, J.R.R. Tolkien introduced the world to Middle-earth — the most important part of it, anyway. The Hobbit wouldn’t be published for six more years. The Lord of the Rings was still ...

Invented languages do more than cause lively debates among Star Trek fans. Esperanto, and other international tongues, are meant to repair the plague of Babel. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish and its ilk help ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Daedalic Entertainment, the developer behind The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, has explained why you'll need to pay additional money for the characters ...

MOSCOW, January 15. /TASS/. Yandex.Perevdochik, a Russian online translation service, has started translating Sindarin, a fictional language devised by English fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien, the ...

Well, not real in that they’re fictional languages spoken by fictional peoples. But what makes a fictional language an actual language and not merely a convincing combination of sounds? Linguist John ...

The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is getting Elvish language DLC, but it's charging for it because the devs had to train the game's voice actors to speak it. It's probably a safe bet that most of you ...

Throughout the course of the previous Dragon Age games, players gradually learn more and more about elven culture. Whether they choose to play as an elf in Dragon Age: Origins or Dragon Age: ...