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Primitive Quendian

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[edit] Inspiration

According Ross Smith, the description of how Elves created languages encapsulate Tolkien's notions about the birth of language. In that primitive stage, there was an origina lsemantic unity among sign, signifier and signified, which then fragmented into more complex systems, resulting to speech and naming. According to Smith, Tolkien's views coincide with those of Owen Barfield's.[1]

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