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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jensaarai" data-source="post: 9607759" data-attributes="member: 7046413">In the "Tolkien did this" sense, he didn't quite go as far as you could maybe logically take this idea if it were real, since Gondor, separated by a few hundred miles and more than several hundred years of cultural/linguistic separation, still functionally speaks the same Westron as the Shire hobbits. Elvish makes sense, cause you can learn it straight from the 10,000-year-old horse's mouth, but most of the Man and adjacent tongues should probably have a lot more drift than shown.Which isn't to say he didn't hammer out some incredible languages and histories; it's just that he was telling a story as well.</blockquote>