I never knew what BASIC stood for (or even that it was an acronym), though I see that is the first thing Wikipedia tells one about it. On the other hand, interestingly enough, the home page of basiconline.com does not mention this :)

Do you mean that "we will have cried out to you" seems awkward in English or that *clamaverimus ad te* seems awkward in Latin?

I will delve into what Tolkien meant by: “Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real.”

I hope you will join me for a weekend of exploring Tolkien's worlds from many points of view.

It's not complex -- just explicit.

Hopefully I can keep this going. I'm working now on making volume 21 available. Support from the community of Tolkien's readers helps 💙🦋

They've turned the page on and off a couple of times now, so it may be a stop-gap measure because of receiving a lot of orders all at one. That they seem to be shipping the orders they receive in due course is a hopeful sign :)

What Tolkien alluded to was the "inner consistency of reality" and as we know "real" legends and languages are not consistent in the ways that most people seem to demand from invented legends and languages.

Since Tolkien is talking about the LotR being the culmination of what he started in 1914, I don't think this contradicts your point about his drawing on non-Germanic sources.

>> "… trembled at: …"
"… to be told that I have succeeded, at least with those who have still the undarkened heart and mind."

There is also this:
"Having set myself a task, the arrogance of which I fully recognized and tremble at: being precisely to restore to the English an epic tradition and present them with a mythology of their own: it is a wonderful thing to be told that I have succeeded, ..." Letter 180 (1956).

If you try the link I gave above, it should work now.