For the Tolkien comic, I would go for Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosiński. Thorgal is probably the best fantasy/SFcomic I read it's also heavily based on mythology. Van Hamme is an expert in world building and Rosinski's landscapes are both captivating and otherworldly.

Faramir didn’t know, but he guessed something, and Gandalf straight up told him: “Olorin I was in my youth in the West that is now forgotten”. Faramir, who is as Numenorean as they come, knows that West is “Numenor that was and Elvenhome that is” (I am guessing this is Tol Eressëa) “and to that which is beyond Elvenhome and will ever be.” So he might well guess that Gandalf doesn’t mean Beleriand.

A small correction: A vowel, linguistically speaking, IS what you call "a vowel sound". The symbols representing the vowels do not have a name of their own. So, linguistically, "cat" and "Mars" have two different vowels at the core of the word; they don't both have one vowel called "a". So on the one hand, you are actually arguing that there are more than three vowels in Black Speech when you say that "burzum" has two different u-sounds i.e. two different vowels (/ɜ:/ and /u/ respectively). At the same time, that is your pronunciation which is clearly coloured by American English. If I were to pronounce "burzum", with the influence of my native language, it would be two /u:/ sounds, i.e. the same vowel. An English speaker reading with their accent would probably read it with around 7 vowels (/ɑ/, /ʊ/, /u~ʉ:/, /ə/, /ɪ/, /i/, /ɜ:/). A German speaker like me would read it with 5 vowel sounds (/a(:)/, /ʊ/, /u:/, /i:/, /ɪ/). A Spanish speaker would probably have 3 vowels in their pronunciation, and so on. You also say that languages have way more than three vowel sounds usually. That's not necessarily true. Arabic has three vowels only, and those are, in fact, /a/, /u/ and /i/. So, it would be possible that Black Speech works with just these three vowels. Now, technically, Arabic has more because you can go at it from a phonetic or phonemic perspective. Phonemic is the language as you hear it and interpret it, phonetic is language as you actually say it. Basically the difference between typing and handwriting, except in spoken rather than written speech. If you write "Fish and Chips" and read it out exactly like that, sound for sound, then you have phonemic pronounciation. If you say it normally, you might say something more like "fijunshis", without even noticing it. People might pronounce "window" as "winow", "water" like "war" or "double" like "dull" in quick speech; and I still haven't heard an English-speaker actually pronounce "sixths" phonemically (sick-s-th-s). In Arabic you'd probably have more than three vowels, phonetically. For example, /ɨ/ (kind of like English "eww" if you are disgusted), might be heard in colloquial Arabic speech.

Tolkien's Silmarillion is brilliant in the way it merges monotheism with polytheism, seamlessly. Have your cake and eat it, too. That allowed him to draw inspiration from different real world mythologies. Pure genius.

I think that Saurumans voice isn't even magic, he's just a very convincing spokesperson. And that is why even without magic he can use his charisma to control the bandits under him.

@John-Sierra

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I'd have to agree, it's something inherant to him, it's magic only in the way that music is.

I think I heard it said that sauron represented the ani christ and morgoth or melkor, Whichever you prefer represented the devil. I think I heard that either in a documentary about Tolkien or on special features on the DVDs.

@John-Sierra

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It's an interesting application, though I don't think Tolkien would be comfortable saying with any hint of allegory

I've always wondered why gimli refers to it as Moria instead of Khazad Dum. Doesn't moria mean black pit? Gimli was looking forward to a good time there, not a tomb

@annafdd

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I put that down to Frodo using the name that was known in his time, just like he has the Mouth of Sauron say “Sauron” despite having said that he doesn’t let his name be used. It is a bit harder to explain the inscription on the Western doors, written personally by Celebrimbor… but Frodo might have reconstructed that from memory.

Yes. After the expulsion of Morgoth, Sauron was effectively the acting Devil.

@John-Sierra

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Very much a devil just not The Devil, especially if it's true that Melkor can and will return

No. Sauron is a fallen arch angel but Morgoth a/k/a Melkor . He was Lucifer / Satan role in the lore.

@John-Sierra

5 ай бұрын

I'm answering, not asking :P

I wonder what Tolkien would've thought of Klingon language camps. I think he'd find it humorous.😅

@John-Sierra

57 минут бұрын

I think he'd love the fact that anybody had such interest in constructed languages.

Gorbag the Orc doesn't have a Black Speech name?

@John-Sierra

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It certainly sounds black speech, but a lot of Orc names are pretty random and without real meaning attributed to them.

15:38 A Rizzard then?