particular happenings of Middle Earth to seem natural and believable. It is not necessary to read it too carefully to perceive that languages have a decisive role in its composition.
             Tolkien worked on the New English Dictionary, now known as the Oxford English Dictionary, and as a professor of languages. Tolkien's first love, philology, the study of languages, and his interest in linguistics inspired him to invent fifteen artificial languages (most famously the two elvish languages from Lord of the Rings, Quenya and Sindarin).
             He later elaborated an entire universe and history of Middle-earth as background.
             He had fluency in as many as a dozen European languages, ranging from Old English and Gaelic to the Romance languages of French and Spanish, as well as having experience in Germanic languages. In his personal correspondence, he noted the sound of the Finnish language as the most pleasing to his ears.
             The popularity of his books has had a small but lasting effect on the use of language in fantasy literature, especially the use of the word "dwarves" versus the standard "dwarfs", and "elvish" as opposed to "elfin".
             These three books ("The fellowship of the Ring", "The two towers" and "The return of the King") compose a series in which we will encounter an atypical hero imbedded with an almost impossible quest, a journey towards the Dark Lord's reign to destroy the ring of power, but, giving it a more intensive reading we will find several stories and destinies that are all heading to the end of the last book, in which an era is closed and another one is born.
             The events take place in a world which is not ours -as I have already pointed out- but which shows obvious similarities with our Earth. Here, the power of Evil, presented in the form of Sauron will intend to overcome the will and strength of all other races whose purpose is to defend this "Middle Earth", though how this victory must be achieved is something tha...