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Citizen #22:
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> Don't nominate detesting people like Carl Hostetter! Obesessioned by a Supe-ego: «I have access to the unpublished materials, I can read thes ematerials, I decides what publish and when, I decide which will help me.».
Oh, that lunatic. I read his website the other day, and he seems horrified by the prospect that anyone would actually want to *use* the Elvish tongues. Of course making your own Sindarin or Quenya texts is on the same level as fanfic. But he says that as if it were a bad thing.
An interesting question he raises is whether copyright law prevents anyone from using Tolkien's languages without permission. There would possibly be a *slightly* better case than RBM's one against anyone using Talossan except him, since Tolkien made up all those words himself rather than modifying a common Romance/Germanic word stock. However, M-P's famous point that a copyright is not the same as a patent would apply. A language is more like a computer programme than a book, surely.
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