JRR Tolkien writing Elvish. The author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings created several languages for his Middle-Earth books. The most developed were Quenya (High-elven) and Sindarin (Grey-elven). Qenya is based on the grammatical principles of Finnish and, on paper, has similar dots and umlauts to indicate any changes in sound of the various characters. Sindarin, described in the books as a descendant of Qenya, is based heavily on Welsh, one of Tolkien's favourite languages because of th