THOMLANG

Intro:

These pages will eventually look really good and contain some fascinating insights into the strange world of Thomlanging, or the constructed languages of Tom Killingbeck, but until that time, please forgive their bare-bones nature.

Conlanging for me is directly related to the efforts of Tolkien and Zamenhof, who were consummate professionals in the art – Tolkien because of the immense impact of Elvish, in its various forms, on fantasy writing, conworlding (is that a term? I guess if it is used on the Internet, it must be, right?) and conlanging, and Zamenhof because of Esperanto's lasting legacy upon IALs in particular. My “vice” began, truly began, after seeing Peter Jackson's interpretation of “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring” (from here on referred to, if at all, as “FotR”), hearing Sindarin and Quenya spoken, turning to the Appendices and learning the Elvish tengwar. This led to learning Quenya from Helga K. Fausganger's site. From there it was all downhill; my mind quickly went to work on a little language I like to call Ámillyet, the ancestor of Êdhchirriad. Then came Kugzogak, in its various incarnations, and so on... Eventually, Emberyad (daughter language of Êdhchirriad) was born (my favourite so far), along with an Eldar language for my Warhammer 40K craftworld. Pil'koska, another of my favourites, also fits in there somewhere.

I haven't done much in the way of conlanging recently, although I have been excited to learn some Bahasa Indonesia and some Old English, and I am sure that elements from both will be apparent when next I try my hand at this glorious art!

So, please read on. Take what you will, discard what you won't, and I hope that the simplicity of these pages doesn't bug you!

[The current files available are all in .pdf format: PILKOSKA.pdf, EldarLang.pdf, kugzogak.pdf, EdhEngDictionary.pdf, EdhGrammar.pdf, EmbGrammar.pdf and EmbWordlist.pdf (type in the .pdf filename after /cilionelle/ in your browser's address bar and it should take you there).]

Kriste,

Tom Killingbeck