Re: Tolkien - List of his languages

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:57:13AM -0800, Abrigon Gusiq wrote:
> http://www.langmaker.com/db/mdl_index_languageauthor.htm
> Go down the list until you find JRR Tolkien (Professor).
>
> It gives a list of his known conlangs.
Thanks for the link!

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.

-Mark

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

(or something like that; typed from memory)

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