[Manwe Sulimo]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> Yet in secert (a secret which unlike the Elves, they did not willingly unlock, even to their friends) they used their own strange tongue, changed little by the years; for it had become a tongue of lore rather than a cradle-speech, and they tended it and guarded it as a treasure of the past. <B>Few of other race have succeeded in learning it</B>. In this history it appears only in such place-names as Gimli reavealed to his companions; and is the battle-cry which he uttered in teh siege of teh Hornburg. That at least was not secret, and had been heard on many a field since the world was young. <I>Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!</I> 'Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!'<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>So some learned the language, but were never taught by the Dwarves themselves. Perhaps Aragorn did learn from Elrond or Celeborn; we'll probably never know.<P>And I have no idea why I posted this...it should be in "Books".