tolkienlanguages1-3  Exercise 3: Why They Sound Different
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A sample answer.

Tolkien took the sound of Quenya from Finnish (with some Latin and Greek)
and the sound of Sindarin from Welsh, so the two languages sound like their
models.

  Quenya: open syllables, many vowels, a smooth, flowing sound
          (also special spellings such as qu, hy, ty, ny)
  Sindarin: harder consonants, closed syllables, and sounds such as dh,
          ch, rh and lh taken from Welsh