conlangs1-6  Exercise 2: Quenya and Sindarin
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  Row                     Quenya                          Sindarin
  ----------------------  ------------------------------  -------------------------
  Role in the story       High, formal language of lore   Everyday language
  Real-language model     Finnish, with Latin base and    Welsh
                          some Greek
  Example phrase          Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo    Mae govannen
                          "A star shines on the hour      "well met"
                          of our meeting"
  Feel                    Open, flowing, vowel-rich       More consonants and
                                                          mutation of initial sounds

One sentence: giving two languages in one world different models makes them
sound like different peoples with different histories, which makes the world
feel real.