Article Discussion: Lord Of The Strings Part 1

I recently enjoyed the latest in the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies at the cinema. I hadn’t read any of Tolkien’s books, so watching the films was my first exposure to Middle Earth, with all its strange creatures and languages. I was especially intrigued by Tolkien’s invented languages (such as Elvish and Dwarvish) and was curious to know where the languages came from, or more precisely, which real language was the biggest influence on Tolkien for his inventions. As I have been thinking about issues of string similarity recently (see ), I wondered whether I could extend my ideas of string similarity to language similarity. In other words, could I discover to which real language Tolkien’s artificial language is most similar?


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Good job.
I think you should try to dig up an Icelandic word list and run this test again.