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Re: Tolkien - List of his languages

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Friday, July 4, 2003, 2:03
--- "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. Padraic. ===== beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima; pe' ne m' molestyont que faciont doazque y facyont in rima. .

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