J.R.R. Tolkien reads his poem Namárië in Elvish

J.R.R. Tolkien’s constructed Elvish languages have such elegant characters — and have been the subject of so much Tolkien-influence art — that it’s easy to forget that they was meant to be spoken. Tolkien was, after all, a linguist, and he wanted his Elvish languages to sound a certain way as they rolled from a practiced tongue. In the recording above, Tolkien reads Namárië — Galadriel’s lament — giving us a first-hand pronunciation of the Elvish tongue Quenya and a feel for the poem’s rhythm.

Sounds a bit like Under Milk Wood to us – Deskarati

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