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Ultimately, whether he intended the Silmarillion to function as a national epic for England, Britain, the Anglosphere, or the entire world does not really matter all that much. What matters is that he succeeded.
Scientists have discovered a fragment of a new Indo-European language preserved in the ancient Hittite capital of Boğazköy-Hattusha.
New research suggests that the common ancestor of languages like Spanish, English and Hindi emerged about 8,000 years ago, resolving differences in two competing theories about the origin of Indo-European languages.