Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

When words fail them, creative writers imagine entirely new ones. Author Patti Callahan Henry examines fictional language, from the words of Tolkien to her own. Our editors and experts handpick every ...

“Sorry, I don’t understand.” Luckily there is a translator for that! To non-speakers, languages invented for television and books may sound like utter gibberish ...

Several fictional languages such as Huttese, Dothraki and Na’vi have been used in movies and TV shows and, in doing so, they have left their mark in the art world. Let us take a look at the stories ...

For big fans of James Cameron’s Avatar, the 13-year wait between the original and this year’s sequel probably felt near interminable. But die-hard fans might have counted with a bit more agony and say ...