[...] Quenya and Sindarin (two Elvish languages) are the only two which are useable—that is, it is possible to write in them if you don’t want to talk about credit derivatives or leather fetish lesbian triangles. Tolkien did not provide a comprehensive grammar and vocabulary of every language spoken by every bit player. No. What he created was something more startling: desire. The language of the Wood Elves, Nandorin, is represented by only thirty words or so. The reader constructed by Tolkien is consumed with longing for the nonexistent language of these nonexistent wood dwellers.