The Language of The Orcs
In The Lord of the Rings, the orcs spoke the language of Mordor. In The Fellowship Of The Ring, Gandalf reads out the elven poem "One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them", and in the council of Elrond, further on, he reads it in its original language, that of Mordor. It translates as: "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatûl, ash nazg thrakutulûk, agh-burzum ishi krimpatûl".
| Nazgûl | Ringwraith |
| Ash | One |
| Ghash | Fire |
| Snaga | Slave |
| Sharkû | Old man |
| Ishi | In |
| Bûrz | Dark |
| Bûrzum | Darkness |
| Lûgburz | Dark Tower |
| Nazg | Ring |
| Durbatulík | To rule them all |
| Gimbatul | To find them |
| Tharakatulúk | To bring them all |
| Agh-burzum ishi krimpatul | And in the darkness bind them |
Some these words contain similar pieces, such as atul, and uk, that are repeated, in Durbatuluk and Tharakutuluk. From this it can be shown that uk at some point in a word means all. The language consists mainly of compound words, that is, words made from other, separate words.
Famous quotes containing the word language:
“Now stamp the Lord’s Prayer on a grain of rice,
A Bible-leaved of all the written woods
Strip to this tree: a rocking alphabet,
Genesis in the root, the scarecrow word,
And one light’s language in the book of trees.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)