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The only text of 'pure' Black Speech is the inscription upon the One Ring. The language was used 'only in Mordor', Tolkien stated, and it was 'never used willingly by any other people' for this reason, 'even the names of places in Mordor are in English', representing Westron. Tolkien described one Orc's utterances as being in 'the Common Speech, which he made almost as hideous as his own tongue'. By the end of the Third Age, Orcs mostly communicated using a debased Westron. Black Speech influenced the Orcs' vocabulary, but soon mutated into many Orkish dialects, which were not mutually intelligible. Sauron attempted to impose Black Speech as the official language of the lands he dominated and all his servants, but in this he was only partially successful. Hostetter wrote that the Dark Lord Sauron created the Black Speech 'in a perverse antiparallel of Aulë's creation of Khuzdul for the Dwarves'. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of the goblet, and used it only as an ashtray. From a fan, Tolkien received a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Tolkien's attitude to the Black Speech may be discerned in one of his letters. According to my taste such things are best left to Orcs, ancient and modern. I have tried to play fair linguistically, and it is meant to have a meaning not be a mere casual group of nasty noises, though an accurate transcription would even nowadays only be printable in the higher and artistically more advanced form of literature. It was evidently an agglutinative language. . The Black Speech was not intentionally modelled on any style, but was meant to be self consistent, very different from Elvish, yet organized and expressive, as would be expected of a device of Sauron before his complete corruption. Unlike his extensive work on the Elvish languages, Tolkien did not write songs or poems in the Black Speech, apart from the One Ring inscription.

The Black Speech is one of the more fragmentary languages in The Lord of the Rings. Some similarities with the ancient Hurrian language, which like the Black Speech was agglutinative, have been described. Scholars note that this is constructed to be plausible linguistically, and to sound rough and harsh. Little is known of the Black Speech except the inscription on the One Ring. Tolkien describes the language as having two forms, the ancient 'pure' forms used by Sauron himself, the Nazgûl, and the Olog-hai, and the more 'debased' form used by the soldiery of Barad-dûr at the end of the Third Age. In the fiction, Tolkien describes the language as being created by Sauron as a constructed language to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor, thereby replacing (with little success) the many different varieties of Orkish, Westron, and other languages used by his servants. Tolkien for his legendarium, where it was spoken in the evil realm of Mordor. The Black Speech is one of the fictional languages constructed by J.

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