Language

Just sitting here, getting ready for yoga, and had some thoughts on the elves' language/s.

I think that, being immortal, the elves might have really started "playing" with their language. I'm not sure what this will result in as yet. One thing I do want to show is how the language got more detailed, more complex, as the millenia wore on.

I do want to start as Tolkien did, with a proto-language of sorts. The first elvish language would be much simpler, at least in terms of such things as cases, conjugations and declensions (if I indeed decide to have all of that in the elven languages). Does it not make sense that an immortal race that doesn't have to worry about dying might develop an extremely complicated, complex language?

What about differences when they were writing poetry as opposed to "regular" documents, etc? Differences when genders are conversing together, or in mixed company?

I definitely want to include the polite "you" form - or possible two, one singular and one plural.

Again, mostly musings at this point.