tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post5120627469741551300..comments2024-03-11T16:29:13.619-05:00Comments on Lingwë - Musings of a Fish: Mything links ...Jason Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-79216146109278469602007-07-20T09:04:00.000-05:002007-07-20T09:04:00.000-05:00Well, your comments were certainly unusual, I’ll s...Well, your comments were certainly unusual, I’ll say that! I can’t say I quite follow what you’re trying to convey here (e.g., whether you’re criticizing my blog or Dirk Vander Ploeg’s book), nor do I understand why you attached your comments to <I>this</I> post. But that were motivated enough to comment at all is appreciated. Why not email me if you have other points you’d like to make?<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, regarding your comments about tapping into a collective unconscious through older languages, it’s interesting you should mention that, because Tolkien does something very like that in <I>The Notion Club Papers</I>.Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-57524213073399997262007-07-20T07:54:00.000-05:002007-07-20T07:54:00.000-05:00I woodie your blog, think E, think Evelyn. Not th...I woodie your blog, think E, think Evelyn. Not the Eve link again?<BR/><BR/>“ One month and twenty-four posts ago, I brought forth on the Internet a new blog, conceived in philology, and dedicated to the proposition that there’s more to Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling, Garner, et al., than meets the eye (or ear). Now I am engaged in a great — oh well, you get the idea!”<BR/><BR/>At least, Quest for Middle-earth by Dirk Vander Ploeg has a thesis and then some supporting arguments.<BR/><BR/>I was hoping for some how the brain hard wires language, and by using older tongues one can conjure up normally inaccessible parts of the collective unconscious, and how with this received doctrine one could do this and that and the other and perhaps also save the world from doom. <BR/><BR/>There are languages that go from left to right. There are languages that go from right to left. There are languages that go up and down. But I have yet to find a language that goes round and round.<BR/><BR/>Thesis and then support. A great starting place would be your emphasis or inclusion of ear vs. eye. <BR/><BR/>Life is good,<BR/><BR/>drobert dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00936949805517287454noreply@blogger.com