the Latin Club presents...
A Saturnalia Celebration!
Please join us for dinner, a "Secret Saturn" gift exchange, and the premiere of "The Hobbit"
After school on Friday, December 14th, we will head to Olive Garden for dinner, then to see "The Hobbit." In order to buy your advance ticket with our group, please bring your $10 to Magistra BY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5th!
We hope you can join us. Io Saturnalia!
In foramine terrae habitabat hobbitus.
(‘In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.’)
"Young Tolkien liked to draw landscapes and trees, but his favourite lessons were those concerning languages, and his mother taught him the rudiments of Latin very early" Source
"Language and grammar for Tolkien was a matter of aesthetics and euphony, and Quenya in particular was designed from "phonaesthetic" considerations; it was intended as an "Elvenlatin", and was phonologically based on Latin, with ingredients from Finnish, Welsh, English, and Greek." Source
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