Would Tolkien have approved this?
Apart from the obvious question of “Where was the boy’s mother, and was she all right with this?”, it does seem obvious that a child will pick up just about any mode of communication you teach him or her in those early years. But I thought this an interesting (if perhaps unethical) use of fiction. The telling line in the article, perhaps, is “Now 13, Speers’ son does not speak Klingon at all.”
Weren’t the Klingons the bad guys? I think Speers could have found a more positive language. There already are a handful of native Esperanto speakers, but he could have used Quenya.
Nai i Valar nauvar as elyë.
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First, let me start my review with a bit of full-disclosure: I’m not a Star Trek fan. Never have been — Star Wars was always a vastly more interesting world and story for me. The characters were more interesting to me, and so was the action. Thus, I do not come to this film with two things many die-hard Trek fans would ask of me: 1) extensive knowledge of the Trek universe, 2) a deep love of Gene Roddenberry’s original universe. I can offer no commentary whatsoever about the quality of J.J. Abrams’s faithfulness to the original creation. I’ve seen many of the movies, though not all. I’ve seen some of the original television series, but I never did watch any of the more recent TV series from the 1990s and 2000s.
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