![]() ![]() In this study, however, Tolkien is the one actual author, and he portrayed one fictional person who was actually two different characters. In a typical forensic authorship analysis, authorship attribution would include compiling and referring to corpora comprised of verified language samples from each suspected author. The processes and analyses described in this paper resemble those a forensic linguist might perform on a document with multiple authors, where the intent is to determine which author might have supplied which parts. The goal of this research was to determine if Tolkien might have designed the idiolect of the Gollum-Sméagol character with the same level of linguistic detail as he did his other languages and dialects. His collection of Middle-earth writings, which he referred to as his “legendarium”, contain several languages with detailed linguistic and historical features. Tolkien was a phenologist and historical linguist with a passion for constructing languages. This paper describes a linguistic analysis of the idiolect of Gollum and/or Sméagol. Poor Sméagol.He's so schitzo man, but I love that catty reply.The topic that is central to this research concerns the distinct speech patterns of a character (or two) from the literary works of J.R.R. But where _have_ you been to? ' `Sneaking,' said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes. he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink and well, that's how it is. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me a bit sharp. 'I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. ![]() Sam felt a bit remorseful, though not more trustful. ![]() Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice.' ![]() Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they say _sneak, sneak_. O nice hobbits! Sméagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. The fleeting moment had passed, beyond recall. Almost spider-like he looked now, crouched back on his bent limbs, with his protruding eyes. 'But where have you been to – sneaking off and sneaking back, you old villain? ' Gollum withdrew himself, and a green glint flickered under his heavy lids. ![]()
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