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Most of my stories have started out as a single character or concept. I usually write a few pages with pen and paper, making it up as I go along, until an idea for an overall plot comes to me. Then I work out a broad overview of the entire thing in my mind. Then I switch to the computer and work out things like character names and personalities. Then I lose my original manuscript and find it again a few months later, type it up and heavily edit it, iron out multiple holes in the plot, and rearrange some characters. After that it's just hard work. So far I don't have any completed projects, because I keep abandoning old ones to start new ones. But I've got a sci-fi short story that's probably going to turn into a whole book that I've been working on steadily all summer. It will probably get finished within a year or two.
The number of languages Tolkien knew, or was familiar with, is probably in the double digits. In the intro to the whole thing he says that the Hobbit and Ring Trilogy had its basis in linguistics. And here is the tansition between what I know and what I might be making up: He and his fellow aesthetes used to hang out in a certain pub where much of the Ring was written, the initial impetus was Tolkien trying to imagine a linguistic journey from England(?) through the Germanic lowlands etc to Scandanavia. Something like that. Some editions of LotR have this in the intro.
Ok, for anyone who's interested (or desperate), I've put some pics on my webpage. Yay to not having them on my ex's page anymore! *chugs a beer or something*
Well, the thing from the freezer was recent, and I don't think my ex would've consented to have it displayed on his page anyway. 
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