The Black Speech

[Grubhosh]

ok then : I am throwing bread at an unpleasant female

eowyn I'd reckon curious orcs end up dead too

[The Witch King]

LOL! Yay! ten out of ten Grubby! ;D

Feel free to make up your own......I need entertaining.

[Grubhosh]

;D have I redeemed myself for the cat shagging thing then?

clears throat

gaakh ulkum akashuga throqu pizlab

[The Witch King]

Let evil hobbits devour your arms?

Eh? lol! That can't be right. Can it? ;D

[The Witch King]

Zaarsh kul-izg thrulug ghaur bub

[Grubhosh]

Yay! that's right

today I am cooking roast pig

[Jared]

agh "and"
ash "one"
-at infinitive suffix, or possibly a specialized "intentive" suffix indicating purpose: Ash nazg durbatulûk "one Ring to rule them all"
bagronk (DBS) "cesspool", possibly bag+ronk "cess+pool"
búbhosh (DBS) "great"
búrz "dark", (isolated from Lugbúrz, q.v.), burzum "darkness"
dug "filth", tentatively isolated from pushdug, q.v.
durb - "rule", infinitive durbat, only attested with suffixes: durbatulûk "to rule them all". The verb durb- is remarkably similar to Quenya tur- of similar sense.
ghâsh "fire" (stated to be derived from the Black Speech, may or may not represent Sauron's original form of the word)
gimb - "find", infinitive gimbat, only attested with a pronominal suffix: gimbatul, "to find them"
glob (DBS) "fool"
gûl "any one of the major invisible servants of Sauron dominated entirely by his will" (A Tolkien Compass p. 172). Translated "wraith(s)" in the compound Nazgûl, "Ringwraith(s)".
hai "folk", in Uruk-hai "Uruk-folk" and Olog-hai "Troll-folk"; cf. also Oghor-hai.
ishi "in", a suffixed postposition: burzum-ishi, "in the darkness".
krimp - "bind", infinitive krimpat, only attested with a pronominal suffix: krimpatul, "to bind them"
lug "tower". Isolated from Lugbúrz, q.v.
Lugbúrz the Dark Tower, Sindarin Barad-dûr (Lug-búrz "Tower-dark")
nazg "ring": ash nazg "one ring", Nazgûl "Ring-wraith(s)"
Nazgûl "Ring-wraith(s)", nazg + gûl (q.v.)
Oghor-hai "Drúedain" (UT:379; this may or may not be pure Black Speech)
olog a variety of Troll apparently developed by Sauron. Olog-hai "Olog-people".
pushdug (DBS) "dungfilth", possibly push+dug "dung+filth"
ronk (DBS) "pool", tentatively isolated from bagronk, q.v.
skai (DBS) interjection of contempt
sha (DBS) interjection of contempt
sharkû (DBS?) "old man"
snaga "slave" (May be DBS.) Used of lesser breeds of Orcs (WJ:390).
thrak- "bring", infinitive thrakat, only attested with suffixes: thrakatulûk "to bring them all"
u (DBS) "to"
-ûk "all", suffixed to pronominal suffixes: -ulûk, "them all"
-ul pronominal suffix "them".
-um "-ness" in burzum "darkness".
uruk a great variety of Orc. According to WJ:390, Sauron probably borrowed this word "from the Elvish tongues of earlier times".

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Well. At least this explains how the word "Nazgûl" was coined.

[The Witch King]

Oooh.....where did you find this?

[Jared]

This site has a pretty detailed study of the Black Speech. There's this whole CHUNK of stuff there.

www.uib.no/People/hnohf/orkish.htm

I just copied out one little part.

[The Witch King]

I recognise that address as the one that has the entire course in Quenya. I didn't realise they did Orkish as well.

[Jared]

Oh, I just did a Google search and it turned up a whole chunk of "Tolkienian Languages" sites. There are a load of sites for Quenya, but the Black Speech is a lot rarer.

[Grubhosh]

nice site Jared ;D. Has anyone trieed translating the whole of the ring poem into the black speech? I have sort of is any of this right?:

Gakh Nazgu Goluggothu-ur lata-nut
Udu gazat ghakhu-ur ulubruz-ishi gund-ob
kirth maturzsharaz-ur dumpunga matat
ash burzgoth-ur tab-ir burzuliima
uzg-ob Mordor-ishi amal burgu kaat

That is suposed to say:

three rings for the elven kings under the sky
seven for the dwarf lords in thier halls of stone
nine for the mortal men doomed to die
one for the dark lord on his dark throne
in the land of mordor where the shadows lie

[The Witch King]

I have seen it written out in Black Speech ( I think Jared had it in his sig) and I don't remember it looking quite like that.

[Grubhosh]

you wouldn't remember what it dis look like by any chance? It's probaly my crap grammer & it don't really read like verse either..

[Jared]

The one I used to have was just the last couple of lines.

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul

You know. The "One Ring to rule....bind them". I can't remember where else there are those little accent-thingies. Someone should check whether Grubby's translation is right.