TY - JOUR
AU1 - Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif
AB -  Book Reviews Gateway to Sindarin, by David Salo. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2004. xvi, 438 pp. $49.95 (hardcover) ISBN 0874808006. This ambitious and helpful book pits itself against numerous predetermined and fundamental disadvantages. Through no fault of its own, the book is handicapped in that it attempts to generate a clear snapshot of an elusive entity that is, in more than one way, a moving target. The author's choice of the word "Gateway" [Sindarin Annon] for the title, and for the cover graphic, shows a keen awareness of the necessary limitations on the project: it must constitute a beginning only. First, it can be convincingly argued that, considering the development of Tolkien's languages throughout Tolkien's own life, there is not, was not, nor ever has there been, such a fixed entity as what Salo, in this book, calls Classical Sindarin, or what general readers of Lord of the Rings might call Third-Age Sindarin--namely, the Sindarin of the story which many readers perceive as the central one of Tolkien's legendarium. Sindarin (or Gnomish, or Noldorin) maintained a protean elusiveness both (a) throughout its author's life (as he tinkered, or Niggled if you will, with it), 
TI - Gateway to Sindarin (review)
JF - Tolkien Studies
DA - 2006-05-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/west-virginia-university-press/gateway-to-sindarin-review-ybvD5vErVp
SP - 166
EP - 173
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -