Singer Enya has three songs on her New album, “Amarantine,” sung in the language Loxian. The singer was inspired by her singing work on the Lord of the Rings movies. The language even has a back story and history.
The Dalkey-based singer also rejected Gaelic and Latin, both of which she used on previous records. So a quarter of the songs on Amarantine, her new album, are in a tongue called Loxian, which she devised with her lyricist Roma Ryan.
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The impetus for the new language came from Enya and Roma’s work on songs for the first film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. May it Be, the theme tune, and Aniron, a love song, both featured Elvish, languages invented by author JRR Tolkien. “I suppose it goes back to working on Lord of the Rings, which was a fantastic project,†said Enya.
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an article on the new language: link
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