The Languages of Middle-Earth

[The Barrow-Wight]

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Would anyone like to start a discussion of the languages of Middle-Earth. I am certainly no expert, but I would find it interesting to share discussions with all of you about the different languages. We could start a thread completely in Quenya <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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langauges

how many are there?

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[The Barrow-Wight]

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Re: langauges

Well, off the top of my head there were Quenya and Sinarin, both Elvish languages. There was Westron, Hobbitish, the language of the Rohirrim, Khuzdul from the Dwarves, and the Black Speech. The Ents spoke a type of run-on Elvish.

The Elvish langauges are the most developed of the list.

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langauges

In a book I saw about the langauges of Middle Earth, it had 14 different langauges.

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[bmilder]

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I have that book <img src=smile.gif ALT=":)">

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I have a book the languages of Middle Earth that explains how Tolkien devised the 14 different languages and such. I have also just aquired an elvish to English dictionary which tells me how to write and speak in the 14 different languages. You guys should check it out at a bookstore. Tolkien was a genious to think up 14 different languages! My god that is absolutely amazing. It will never happen again in our lifetime.

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the only book I have {or know of} in this regard is &quot;the languages of middle-earth &quot;by R.Noel
-does any one know of a source more recent inc. unfinished / history material {or some of it } at this point an internet source is more prob. but I am poorly traveled in virtual middle-earth.
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Try Ardalambion at www.uib.no/people/hnohf/

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Hmmm...there's the Common Speech, spoken by just about everyone, there's several elf languages including Quenya, Rohirric, spoken by (duh) the Rohirrim, Adunaic, which is the ancient language of the Dunedain, Khudzul, which is the dwarf language, and there is the speech spoken by the wild men, then the language of Mordor written on the Ring. I'm sure there's more.

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[Arvedui]

It was rather hard to communicate with the Lossoth, but we did come to an understanding. smilies/wink.gif

So how many here are students of the languages of Tolkien?

[Nurumaiel]

I for one. I haven't had much time for it recently, but I'm slowly and steadily working my way through the Sindarin lessons at the CoE, as well as the Quenya course at Ardalambion.

[Hans Markus Rod]

Did Tolkien ever invent any Southron or/and Easterling language? In the books they are only described as harsh of tongue an stuff like that.