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Black Speech

The Black Speech is one of the languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien for his legendarium, where it was spoken in the evil realm of Mordor. In the fiction, Tolkien describes the language as created by Sauron as a constructed language to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor.

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Created by
J. R. R. Tolkien
Date
c. 1945–1973
Glottolog
None
ISO 639-3
None (mis)
Purpose
Artistic languageBlack Speech · Black Speech
Setting and usage
Mordor in Middle-earth

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Black Speech

Nodes82
Edges81
Triples130
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02439
Components1

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Black Speech

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related to Comparison with Elvish languages · 20
Black Speech → Dark Lord Sauron, Elves, Elvish, English, Esperanto, For, Further, George Orwell's, He, Meile, Middle-earth, Nils-Lennart Johannesson, Orcs, Quenya, Sauron's Newspeak, Sindarin, The Swedish, Tolkien, Tolkien's, Uruk
related to Sound and meaning · 19
Black Speech → Arts, Ashford, David Ashford, Elves, Fantastic, Fauskanger, Helge Fauskanger, Hostetter, Journal, Linguists, Orcs, Ring-inscription, Sauron, Sauron's, The Black Speech, The Tolkien, Tolkien, Tolkien's, Tom Shippey
related to history · 18
Black Speech → Aulë's, By, Carl, Common Speech, Dark Lord Sauron, Dwarves, English, Hostetter, Khuzdul, Mordor, Orc's, Orcs, Orkish, Sauron, The, Third Age, Tolkien, Westron
related to Other examples · 16
Black Speech → Another Orkish, Appendix, Barad-dûr, Black Speech/Orkish, Dark Tower, Isengard Uruk Uglúk, King, Lugbúrz, Mordor Orc, Nazgûl, Shire, The, The Return, The Scouring, The Two Towers, These
related to Parallels to natural languages · 15
Black Speech → Alexandre Nemirovski, Ashford, Fauskanger, Further, Hurrian, Hurrian-Urartian, In Ashford's, Mesopotamia, Nemirovski, Rings, Speiser's Introduction, The, The Lord, The Russian, Tolkien
related to Objective · 12
Black Speech → Because, Elvish, From, He, One Ring, Ring, Rings, The Black Speech, The Lord, Tolkien, Tolkien's, Unlike
related to The One Ring inscription · 9
Black Speech → Elvish Tengwar, It, One Ring, Power, Rhyme, Rings, The, This, Tolkien
related to In film and music · 7
Black Speech → David Salo, For Peter Jackson's The, Lord, Ring Verse, Rings, Salo, The
related to External links · 6
Black Speech → Archived, Craig Daniel, December, Helge Kåre FauskangerBlack Speech, Orkish, Wayback Machine
Purpose · 2
Black Speech → Artistic languageBlack Speech, Black Speech

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speech black tolkien language languages ring one constructed elvish inscription mordor sauron lord word tolkien's linguistic orcs meaning rings quenya

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Black SpeechCreated byJ. R. R. Tolkien1.00infobox
Black SpeechDatec. 1945–19731.00infobox
Black SpeechGlottologNone1.00infobox
Black SpeechISO 639-3None (mis)1.00infobox
Black SpeechPurposeArtistic languageBlack Speech1.00infobox
Black SpeechPurposeBlack Speech1.00infobox
Black SpeechSetting and usageMordor in Middle-earth1.00infobox
Black Speechis ainscription upon the One Ring0.90text
Black Speechrelated to Comparison with Elvish languagesThe Swedish0.60section
Black Speechrelated to Comparison with Elvish languagesNils-Lennart Johannesson0.60section
Black Speechrelated to Comparison with Elvish languagesTolkien's0.60section
Black Speechrelated to Comparison with Elvish languagesElvish0.60section

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