[Shelob]

I think "adopting" new terms is simply a form of evolution, the same as creating them. English has for the most part got it's roots in other languages and yet it's "realness" isn't be questioned because of it, just like we don't question it's "realness" just because someone coins a new phrase...if that were the case most languages would have ceased to be real around the same time the internet became common.

Also, and this just came to me so the idea's still rather messy, if Quenya were adopted as the common language of Tolkien fans wouldn't it then, by any definition, be forced into realness? Consider "real determined by use", if enough Tolkien fans were using it to communicate between themselves it would be as valid as many a language because it would be being used, perhaps not for everyday things like running down to the store, but for enough things. Also consider the "real determined by evolution" track, if it were being used (esp. online) would Quenya not have to adapt and change the same way other languages do to meet the needs it's speakers have? In that case Quenya would have started out the product of one person's mind, and would have been as full and real as such a language could have been, but by being used it would have become a new-quenya which was the result of the same processes our commonly accepted "real" languages are. That new-quenya wouldn't be exactly the same as Quenya as it is now, but then Old-English isn't the same as Moddern-English. By this then "not being used" and "not evolved/evolving" are really the same thing. If a language must be evolved/evolving to be "real" then it must be being used, if a language is being used it must be evolving. Quenya as it is may never quite be "real" but the moment it is changed to meet the need of speakers it would be.

That may not address the issue of "Tolkien evolved it in his mind", but then that wasn't between speakers so the language still wasn't being used...and so it still doesn't quite fit under anything I've said...