What I Learned about Lord of the Rings from Inventing a Language
Young Heretics | 16 Nov. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY-7LeEOK5w
A highlight:
"I think 2:32 that's the wave of the future when it 2:34 comes to Advanced scholarship we have a 2:37 decaying Academy in this country and 2:40 around I think the modern West there's 2:43 really no denying it at this point that 2:45 the institutions of Higher Learning 2:47 which are supposed to represent the best 2:49 of our intellectual tradition have in 2:51 many cases not all cases but many cases 2:54 abandoned their 2:56 responsibility and that means that there 2:59 are a lot of fields social science for 3:02 example where you can find better 3:05 information better data better research 3:08 and better 3:09 analysis by following some random 3:12 pseudonymous guy on X than you can by 3:15 listening to whatever politically 3:16 motivated study katangi Brown Jackson" (Ketanji Brown Jackson?) 3:19 "happens to be citing today"
But of course I am mainly citing the video for Spencer Klavan's experience with conlanging./HGL
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