weird couple

[frualeydis]

We just had a short reflection on the effort made by Morgoth (I suppose it was Morgoth and not Sauron) to invent a language who's main purpose was to be ugly, reaching the conclusion that it of course helps to be really, really evil and have lots of time.

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[armillary.livejournal.com]

The alternative would be to have the orcs all speak Elven. And we really, *really* can't have that.

[bracke.livejournal.com]

Elven (yikes) there u have an ugly language for sure!

[bracke.livejournal.com]

do not think its ugly

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

*giggle*

/Eva

[therru.livejournal.com]

Never underestimate language as a unifying factor... :)

Anyway, it was Sauron, if it's the Black Speech you are referring to. And he probably didn't design it to be ugly -- he just wasn't very good at making languages, and the people who spoke it didn't exactly make it prettier... ^^

Tolkien, however, did design Black Speech to be really ugly. But he didn't really spend a lot of time on it. There are only about thirty extant words in the Black Speech, as devised by the Professor himself.

[pralinesssan.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Are you really sure you're not interested in joining the Forodrim?

At our concert a week ago we recited the verse on the one ring in the original tongue. At first only as a whisper, but in the end we were screaming and wailing and sounded like banshees. But the audience liked it.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I think I take the sacred texts too seriously ;)

/Eva