Tolkien is famous for his invented languages such as Sindarin, Quenya, and Khuzdul but our knowledge of them in his lifetime was almost entirely through the way they were used within The Lord of the Rings.

In this lecture, a taste of the month-long SPACE module of the same name, we will go on a puzzle-solving adventures, gleaning what we can about the languages from hints in The Fellowship of the Ring. We'll look, in particular, at the names of places as well as a couple of examples of Elvish poetry and see just how much of the languages we can work out ourselves!