Books on Tolkien linguistics?

[Child of the 7th Age]

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Unlike WCH, I have no "insider's" special tips, and I am not a specialist in languages. (That's putting it mildly!) But the bad blood between the linguists has sadly been going on in public for a long time and is evident to even someone like myself who is a casual observer. You can easily see it in the posts on various websites and yahoo groups.

When it began, some criticized the "official" linguists for being too slow to publish documents and not generous enough in sharing materials. Hostetter and the others appointed by CT felt they were unfairly batted over the head by impatient and unreasonable critics. More recently, there's been arguments over a number of topics, including Salo's attempts to expand on the Elvish tongues by adding words that JRRT never sanctioned. This initially occurred in the context of the movies, but Salo then went ahead and published a volume on Sindarin that many feel is pure fiction. So the movie/book divide is also a factor in this disagreement.