Re: Tolkien - List of his languages

Quoting Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>:

> --- "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...> wrote:
> > I find it odd that it lumps the Black Speech in
> > with Orkish; they
> > are separate languages.  Orkish is full of
> > loanwords from the Black
> > Speech, but nobody but the Nazgûl actually
> > still speaks it by the time of Frodo.
>
> And presumably the great conlanger himself! I'd
> also bet that some of the cleaner staff up in the
> Tower also use the Black Speech.
From The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F:

"When Sauron rose again, it [=the Black Speech] became once more the language
of Barad-dûr and of the captains of Mordor."

This rather suggests it was in common use among the Mordorian elite in Frodo's
day.

                                                           Andreas