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1. A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
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1. A Gateway to Sindarin: A Grammar of an Elvish Language from JRR Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
- Cost-effective 7200 RPM internal hard drive upgrade for laptop or desktop computers allows you to store all of your games, music, movies, and more
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- Best-fit applications for BarraCuda hard drives include desktop or all-in-one PCs, home servers, entry-level direct-attached storage devices (DAS)
- Instant Secure Erase allows safe and easy drive retirement, and you can protect data with Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) models
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I wouldn't bother. Have an interest in the language, sure! but don't try to learn it like you would a real-world language, because you can't really. You have to learn one of the Neo-Sindarin languages, which are contentious and no one agrees on which one is best, as you can probably imagine. If you like the version spoken in the Peter Jackson movies then I'd recommend getting hold of a copy of David Salo's A Gateway to Sindarin - it's not a "learn Sindarin" book per se, but it is a comprehensive grammar of the language as it appears in the movies. Personally, I think that Salo went a bit too far in his analysis of the consonant mutations and he, quite unbelievably, misanalysed one of the phonemes (he cites Sindarin <lh> as /l̥/ when it had already been known for some time to be /ɬ/).
Sindarin's vocabulary is nowhere near large enough to make every-day conversation, unless you want to talk about Middle-earth as if you live there... then by all means dive in! It's a good language to have an interest in and study it from an academic view, but not as a language to try to become fluent in and say "hey, I speak Elvish - mae govannen!"
You could, however, learn Welsh which has a phonetic inventory almost identical to Sindarin (even /ɬ/), very similar consonant mutations and other similar grammatical features, and it's a language spoken in the real world by real people, should you wish to speak with them. So you could (depending on where you live) claim to speak Elvish and then just speak Welsh...