Black Speech
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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
Black Speech has been compared to the Hurrian language, seen here on the Foundation Tablet, c. 2000 BC
Nazgûl
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The Nazgûl – introduced as Black Riders and also called Ringwraiths, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine – are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. They were nine Men
Black Speech
…Appendix F of The Return of the King. These include Lugbúrz, meaning "Dark Tower" (Barad-dûr), uruk, "orc", snaga, "slave", and ghâsh, "fire". The name Nazgûl is a combination of nazg meaning "ring" and gûl meaning "wraith(s)", hence "ringwraith". Another Orkish word, sharkû, "old man", is given in "The…
Tolkien stated that the "fell beasts" that the Nazgûl rode, while not intended actually to be pterodactyls, were "obviously ... pterodactylic". 1897 reconstruction of pterodactyls shown
A Nazgûl, depicted as a shadowy but solid body, cloaked and hooded, wearing a sword, and mounted on a horse
John Garth suggests that the Black Breath may derive from Tolkien's experience of gas in the First World War. Painting Gas Attack, Flanders by Alfred Bastien, 1915
The Nazgûl hacking and slashing at the hobbits' beds in the Prancing Pony inn at Bree, in Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated film version