More linguistic news from the BBC: a school in Birmingham has an after-school program teaching one of the Elvish languages, Sindarin (the "conversational" form of Elvish).
The best part of the article: "The number of Sindarin speakers worldwide is unknown but thought to be growing rapidly." I'll bet: growing from 5 to 25 is a tremendously rapid increase; at least, in percentage terms.
Better still are the comments following the article: "Great. Will be really handy when these kids grow up into the real world and need to get jobs." and "Brilliant idea! Elvish could be the new Esperanto!" and "My wife Carole is an elf and I have been learning Sindarin from her for the last approximately five years." And many more.
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