tolkienlanguages1-2  Exercise 3: Comparing Families
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A sample answer.

In common with Latin and its descendants:
  1. A shared ancestor from which the languages split.
  2. Related words and sound patterns in the descendants.

What Tolkien's family has that a real one does not: a single author who
decided the history, so the family follows a story (a journey, a division of
peoples) and was revised again and again by one person. Real families
develop with no plan.