Yes I adore that picture too! I'll probably use it for my profile when I finally get around to it
As for the Valley language, I've decided I might as well give it away, as it's unlikely that anyone will ever guess it. Unlike you and Tolkien, I can't make up my own language, so used an existing one.
You can probably get from my spelling that I'm English, however my grandfather was from the South Wales Valleys (Wales is a country in Britain by the way), and I can speak a fair amount of Welsh (mainly because I have too much time on my hands).
The only problem is that only about 650,000 people can speak it, so all the translation services are really bad, and therefore no one will have any idea what it means, so I'm trying to keep it to the minimum at the moment. As for the future, we'll see...
Oh! I've always wanted to visit Wales. I'm plain ol' American, born and raised in cornfields so visiting Europe always seems so exotic to me.
Anyways, for Nym? I've got a bit of a secret.
It
is a language I made up, yes; but it's a mashup of several languages. Most of them being several forms of Elvish with a bit of Latin (as I can read and used to be able to speak Latin, I'm rusty now). It's not something I just slopped together though, which is what it always sounds like when I say 'I combined x and x languages to make it.' I actually came up with a system of endings and ways of combining words to make what I want to say, so
that I am proud of. XD
I say you should feel free to add in Welsh where you'd like!
Hey, perhaps you can always throw in a translation guide for us newbies who can't speak a lick of Welsh.
I love learning new languages. I'd love to learn Gaelic if possible, eventually.
Everyone laughs because I'll never use it, but... I love it so much.