Stumbled upon JRR Tolkien

I was doing the word lists, and did a google search for the word 'Niggle'. That is how I came to JRR Tolkein's story 'Leaf by Niggle.'

Reading about it, my interest was suddenly aroused to see how Tolkien had built his enormous vocabulary and how he propagated it.

Well, there were these lines that I wanted to copy paste here for future reference:

"Mum is not the word for Roverandom: this book can be enjoyed by anyone who loves The Hobbit, from the most abstruse Tolkien scholar to intelligent children of perhaps age 8 or 10. The vocabulary is steep, but as the editors note, Tolkien insisted that children learn new words by reading ones they do not already know. Anyone curious about the allusions can look them up in the notes, but they are not marked in the text and are no more necessary than would be notes to Farmer"

Source: http://www.mythsoc.org/roverrev.html

A good read in teh first half: http://www.calvin.edu/minds/vol02/issue04/cengbers.php

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"A myth or a fairy story can convey love and hate, selfishness and self-sacrifice, loyalty and betrayal, good and evil -- all of which are metaphysical realities, that is, true, even if conveyed in a mythological or fairyland setting."

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Tolkien realized that when you learn a language, you don't just learn auditory symbols, you also learn about the history, culture, and values of the society that speaks that language. Therefore he came up with a "world" history and a society where his invented languages could have evolved.