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Date: Monday, 8 December 2003 08:41 (UTC)Well, it is a quite complete language. Much as I have troubles with the Peter Jackson movies, one good thing about them is that they hired David Salo to reconstruct 'missing' Sindarin words: his assumptions are very valid, and have done much to make Sindarin more speakable.
The major problem of course is that the known vocabulary is limited, but by using words from Tolkien's old Ñoldorin dictionary (the Ñoldorin language later became Sindarin, with an entirely different origin) adjusted for later changes, you can have conversations in it. But even basic concepts are missing in Sindarin, more so than in Klingon probably, because Klingon is a 'modern' language comparable to English, while Sindarin is perhaps better compared to Roman Latin or Old Greek.