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Re: CHAT: I'm back!

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 12:20
Daniel Andreasson wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote: > > > I'm quite positive that this entry refers to the Sindarin > > word "gu^l", not to the Black Speech one. > >Yes, but it's a known fact that Sauron took many words >from Elvish languages when he created his Black Speech. >
It is, but there's, to my knowledge, no indication that "gu^l" is one of them, and the semantic distance between "sorcery" and "wraith" is pretty large. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com