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[[File:Aerlinn in Edhil o Imladris.png|thumb|Untranslated, but still appreciated:{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=129–131}} the long version of "A Elbereth Gilthoniel," written in Tolkien's [[Tengwar]] script]]

The scholar of English literature Allan Turner{{sfn|Honegger|Vanderbeke|2014}} writes that "the sound pattern of a language was the source of a special aesthetic pleasure" for Tolkien.{{sfn|Turner|2013|pp=330–331}} The Tolkien scholar [[Tom Shippey]] notes that inIn ''[[The FellowshipMonsters ofand the Ring]]''Critics, the poem ''[[Aand ElberethOther GilthonielEssays]]'', written in [[Sindarin]], one of Tolkien's inventedstated Elvish languages, is presented directly withoutthat translation:{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=129–131}}

{{blockquote|The communication factor has been very powerful in directing the development of language; but the more individual and personal factor—pleasure in articulate sound, and in the symbolic use of it, independent of communication though constantly in fact entangled with it – must not be forgotten for a moment."{{sfn|Tolkien|Tolkien|1983|p=208}} }}

The Tolkien scholar [[Tom Shippey]] notes that in ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', the poem ''[[A Elbereth Gilthoniel]]'', written in [[Sindarin]], one of Tolkien's invented Elvish languages, is presented directly without translation:{{sfn|Shippey|2005|pp=129–131}}

{{blockquote|<poem>A Elbereth Gilthoniel