Black Speech Dictionary
- agh – and
- ash – one
- burz – dark
- burzum – darkness
- durba – (to) rule
- ghash – fire
- gimba – (to) find
- ishi – in the
- krimpa – (to) bind
- lug – tower
- nazg – ring
- nazgul – ring-wraith
- olog – troll
- sharku – old man
- snaga – slave
- tul – them
- uk – all
- uruk – type of orc
- uruk-hai – goblin
Additional words compliments of Melethriel. Thanks!
- bagronk - cesspool
- búbhosh - great
- dug - filth
- glob - fool
- gûl - wraith
- hai - folk
- pushdug - dungfilth
- ronk - pool
- skai - swearword
- sha - swearword
- thrak - bring
Thanks to Ljindali for the following.
37. Sauron's Army Cry. [The Two Towers]
From Jude Fisher's The Two Towers - Visual Companion (October 2002). Its fragment occur in a film clip about editing the soundtrack in the movie, where Peter Jackson is directing a whole football stadium to say in unison. It can be found here.
orcs: Za dashu snaku Zigur, Durbgu nazgshu, Durbgu dashshu!
orcs: 'Hail, Sauron, Lord [of the] Ring, Lord [of the] Earth'
za dashu snaku 'hail; be greeted'; etymology uncertain.
Zigur 'Sauron'; < Adunaic Zigûr 'Wizard; Sauron'.
durbgu 'lord'; < Black Speech *durb- 'rule' (cf. durbatuluk 'to rule them all') + *-gu agentival/personalising ending. In The Two Towers - Visual Companion we have the form **durgbu which is probably incorrect, since in a film clip about editing the soundtrack the screen shows it being spelt DURBGOO (the note comes from Chris Lipscombe).
nazgshu '[of the] Ring'; < Black Speech nazg 'ring' + *-shu 'of the'?
dashshu '[of the] Earth'; < Black Speech *dash 'earth' + *-shu 'of the'?
If anyone knows of any other black speech vocabulary, by all means e-mail me...it's the only time I'll welcome an e-mail entitled "BS". (e-mail address is in "contact me" section of the menu)