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A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is an exhaustive study by David Salo of J.R.R. Tolkien's Sindarin Elvish language. Published in 2005 by University of Utah Press, it stands as the most thorough, single-publication guide to Tolkien's extant material on Sindarin, his most developed constructed language, so far. It draws from all published writings of Tolkien, but not those yet unpublished at the time.[1]

Salo gives a history of Sindarin's development, and then guides the reader through Sindarin's phonetics, scripts, evolving phonology, word mutations, word formation, parts of speech, and syntax and sentence structure. At the end are six appendices providing all official Sindarin vocabulary and other data that were available at the time of publication.

Commentary by Carl F. Hostetter and other critiques of the work have noted the inability to clearly distinguish between Tolkien's own inventions and those created exclusively by Salo. The work has since been noted to be somewhat dated due to the wealth of newly discovered official material published since 2007.

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  1. Preface, pg. xv


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