For a couple of weeks now I’ve had all of the materials that I need to start working on the project, so I’ve begun to read through them leisurely to absorb the information that I’ll use.  For Finnish, I’m reading Fred Karlsson’s Finnish: An Essential Grammar, and for Welsh I’m reading A Welsh Grammar by Stephen J. Williams.  I’ve managed to find a free Latin textbook online to use for my comparisons, and my references on Quenya and Sindarin are from a page run by the University of Bergen in Norway and a few other sites.

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