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Searching for Black Speech Words

I don't think that Tolkien wrote much more about the Black Speech than the few words and phrases (outside of the Rings poem)


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  • "Those who used the Nine Rings became mighty in their day, kings, sorcerers, and warriors of old. They obtained glory and great wealth, yet it turned to their undoing. They had, as it seemed, unending life, yet life became unendurable to them. They could walk, if they would, unseen by all eyes in this world beneath the sun, and they could see things in worlds invisible to mortal men; but too often they beheld only the phantoms and delusions of Sauron. And one by one, sooner or later, according to their native strength and to the good or evil of their wills in the beginning, they fell under the thraldom of the ring that they bore and under the domination of the One, which was Sauron'."
  • Voshuzut Krith-Nazgu kulatuluzut dautasghaara ranuz, istaris agh ushataru hoh vitarum. Mabajuzut mundasum agh pasunum. Vrapoguzut garmadhatuluk. Mabaj ashikibum. Kibum kulat nagithasatuluk. Majab rrugan agh nar shofatul augauirzi Dhaob Dillata agh shofuzut Botishi asgaja matuurzuat. Shumu kohu shofuzut ashi gûlu agh ovanisha pamaj Sauronob.






Agh burzumishi ash skraefa perianhaiob krimp zaghishi voshatraum burzishi Ash-Nazg vrapogat Uruk-Hai zhagob.

And in the darkness a coward of the hobbit people trapped in the mountain watch / look in the dark the One-Ring to run of the Uruk-People's mountain.


Burzumishi ash augubaloratzperian sundaumirzi Ash-Nazg voshatraum burzshi vesallirzi nar mabaj Ash-Nazg doramishi

In the darkness an eye-green-hobbit conquered-by One-Ring watch miserable in the dark by not keeping One-Ring in the hand.



Zhagishi ushtarak magrogat kitot agh ash ushatar gimbul burzum-ishi

In the mountain a army to protect and a soldier found them in the darkness


Words and concepts vary widely, but I use this dictionary to guide and structure sentences.





http://www.angelfire.com/ia/orcishnations/englishorcish.html
http://www.ardalambion.com.br/orquico-e-a-lingua-negra/ (in portuguese)
 
I like the responsible work of the webmaster of www.blackspeech.ru, be it that (unvoidable as it is!) some of the fan-forms listed there sound more credible than others.

One frequency-wise necessary neologism that can be suggested is *kra(a), *-(á)kra (*"from/of") based on Q. ho, hó-; the sound-switches assume a connection between krimp- and √HEPE, sha and Q. yo, yó.
 
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