Appendix:Black Speech

Black Speech is a fictional language created by author J. R. R. Tolkien in his series The Lord of the Rings.

Pure Black Speech

• agh (“and”)
• ash (“one”)
• burzum (“darkness”)
• durb- (“rule”)
• ghâsh (“fire”)
• gimb- (“find”)
• gûl (“wraith”)
• hai (“folk”)
• krimp- (“bind”)
• Lugbúrz (“Dark Tower”)
• nazg (“ring”)
• nazgûl (“ringwraith”)
• olog (“troll”)
• snaga (“slave”)
• thrak- (“bring (by force)”)
• uruk (“orc”)

Suffixes

• -at (“participial ending”)
• -ishi (“in”)
• -ul (“them”)
• -ulûk (“them all”)

Derivative Black Speech

(as used in the Peter Jackson films)

• akha (“void”)
• gu (“no”)
• gurum (“death”)
• kelkum (“coldness”)
• kibum (“life”)

Suffixes

• -gum (“here”)

See also

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