The Lhammas

The next section of The Lost Road is the account of tongues or The Lhammas. I'm sure this was a delight for Professor Tolkien to think about being a philologist. He gave a couple of title pages and both attributed Lhammas to Pengolod of Gondolin. It was in turn taken from Tol Eressëa by Aelfwine to the realms of Men. Tolkien created a couple of versions of The Tree of Tongues which looks like a rather complicated family tree. But the Lhammas and the Tree trace languages from Valarin through the differing forms of Elvish by the end of the First Age. Dissensions among elves, the tarrying of the Teleri and many other factors contributed to the very similar yet very unique tongues of Elves both in Valinor and for those who never came and resided in the Hither Lands. The Lhammas contains eleven sections and even touches upon the languages of Men and Dwarves.