[HerenIstarion]

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Re: Bye Bye Balrogs

GAL, GALAM- talk loud or incoherently. Q clamour; N glamb, glamm (*ngal, influenced by lambe [LAB]) barbarous speech; Glamhoth = Orcs. See LAM, GLAM. [The stem was changed subsequently to GYAL- and Q alme to yalme

Again can be used o define trolls as well as orcs, + as well as my noisy neighbour again in the game.

And here we also have

quendi and eldar, Appendix C. Elvish names for the Orcs:

For these shapes and the terror that they inspired the element chiefly used in the ancient tongue of the Elves appears to have been *RUKU. In all the Eldarin tongues (and, it is said, in the Avarin also) there are many derivatives of this stem, having such ancient forms as: ruk-, rauk-, uruk-, urk(u), runk-, rukut/s, besides the strengthened stem gruk-, and the elaborated guruk-, guruk.

the same stems as for the balrogs, mind you!

etymologies:

RUK- demon. Q ranko demon, malarauko, gwalarauk, cf. GWAL); N rhaug, Balrog.

So far for the comments