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Re: Intergermansk - Three Rings

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Friday, January 28, 2005, 0:57
In a message dated 1/27/2005 7:34:59 PM Eastern Standard Time,
conlang@THECARTOGRAPHERS.NET writes:

>I never noticed the rhyme in the original, I'm sure it's no great loss. >(I've never thought of it as particularly great verse.)
Do you mean the original in the Black Speech, or JRRT's English translation? :-) By the way, does anyone know if JRRT ever provided the original Black Speech version for the whole poem, or do we have only the lines in the Ring inscription quoted in _The Fellowship of the Ring_? Doug

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Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>