Tolkien's key idea on language learning: love is more important than "practicality" or "utility." This idea is underappreciated.
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Check out his lecture "English and Welsh" (link in the article I posted today). He gives more details.
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Basic idea is he believed intellectual passion for a language should override short-sighted considerations of utility.
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