<s>[INST] Were the languages in Tolkien's Lord of the rings book series inspired by real languages? [/INST] Tolkien was a polyglot familiar with many languages and had been since an early age. The  Lord of the rings books arose as a way for Tolkien to implement the languages he had created. Specifically the Quenya and Sindarin languages origins were based in Finnish and Welsh respectively.</s>\ <s>[INST] Who wrote lord of the rings? and in what year? [/INST] Lord of the Rings was written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1954.</s>