I've been looking at Negric, and it's pretty cool so far. What were your inspirations for it?
I draw a lot of inspiration from the peoples who I think would fit the language first. I spend a lot of time walking around in the woods and babbling to myself to come up with new “feels” for conlangs. This summer, I was recently part of a production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, and we perform in the middle of the woods. I played Autolycus the Rogue (who doesn’t appear until the second half of the play), and I had a lot of time in the beginning of the show to walk about the woods wearing a cloak and doing my usual babbling. This is where I came up with the beginnings of Negric; I had imagined these rough and roguish peoples who lived in treehouses in the forest. They don’t like outsiders very much, and a lot of their language towards others isn’t very friendly. The actual sounds of the language, I felt I drew inspiration from Tolkein’s Sindarin. I grew to really love the smoothness and simplicity of Sindarin, and took a lot of inspiration from that.So long story short, Elves! :)