The Rokbeigalm and the Druedain

The Rokbeigalm and their language, Rokbeigalmki, originally came into
being as a way of creating my own unique character on ElendorMUSH, the
Tolkien-based MUSH (Multiple User Shared Hallucination, an internet RPG),
after i decided that my original character Elnar just wasn't working out.

I originally wanted to play a Drughu (a.k.a Drûg / Drúadan / Wose /
Púkelman) character, but since there wasn't a set up official Drúaith
Iaur or Drúadan Forest culture, i ended up "pulling a Rhunedhel" and
creating my own extra/a-thematic culture area "off the map" of the
Elendor grid, and i made them similar to the Drûgs in general physical
appearance and technological level.

Then, one day, i remembered that the one Drûg character in _Lord of the
Rings_ was named Ghân-buri-Ghân...and that _buri_ sounds remarkably
similar to the Rokbeigalmki name-prefix _bre'_, "son of".

So....it seems that not only are the Rokbeigalm and the Woses similar,
but they are related!
Here we have some sound-correspondences between Rokbeigalmki and Drughki:

R /@/  =  D /U/ {u}
R /E/ {e}  =  D /I/ {i}
R /u/ {u}  =  D /u/ {û}
R /a/ {a}  =  D /a/ {â}

It also seems that where Rokbeigalmki spirantizes or adds /D/ {dh} to the
end of a root in order to turn it into a "doer" noun, Drughki, in some
cases, also "splits the vowel"

Root (r) DRUG ; (d) DRÛG ; both /drug/ = "rock (element), boulder,
outcropping"
 >> R:  _drugh_ /druG/ , "rock-carver"
 >> D:  _drughu_ /drUGU/ , "member of the Drughu tribe"

Drughki, based on that, seems to have retained a relationship between
pairs of vowels that is only rarely retained in Rokbeigalmki in
intensifying-palindromes like /ur/ "fire" >> /urUHUru/ "wildfire".

So far, based on the orthography, some pairs seem to be:
{â} */a/  <>  *{a} */@/
*{ê} */e/  <>  *{e} */E/
*{î} */i/ ?  <>  {i} */I/
*{ô} */o/ ?  <>  {o} */O/
{û} */u/  <>  {u} */U/

Another interesting case is the word _gorgûn_, meaning "orcs".
GORG is an attested Rokbeigalmki root meaning "(to) swarm".
-Û- is probably a version of Rokbeigalmki -MU, a dual suffix extended in
Drughki for the plain plural.
-N is probably either equivalent to Rokbeigalmki -N, a singularizing
suffix, or -D, the ending of sentient specieses, or a merger of both.
Possibly -M (the normal plural) and -N merged in Drughki, leaving no
difference between singular and plural.  They possibly might use another
way to disambiguate.


-Stephen (Steg)
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  that you touch perfect speed.  And that isn't flying a thousand
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