Raimundus A. Brown scripsit:
> I've skimmed through Chaps. 4 & 5 of Book II of TLOR, where the fellowship
> journey through Moria, and can find only one word said by Orcs - "gha^sh"
> (fire) - as there were Uruk-Hai with them, it's likely that they were
> mostly using the Black Speech and not Westron.
I think it's said somewhere that "gh^ash" is a borrowing from the
Black Speech into the variety of Westron that Orcs use.
> there's odd inclusion of words 'Nar'
I think that is the usual English negative, more normally spelled "Nah".
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)