Languages

Quenya (pronounced [ˈkʷwɛnja][1]) is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien and used by the Elves in his legendarium.

List of Elvish words in either Sindarin or Quenya. C - Always has the value of K, never of S...

Sindarin is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien[1] for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda (popularly called Middle-earth). Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the immortal Elves, called the Eledhrim [ɛˈlɛðrim] or Edhellim [ɛˈðɛllim] in Sindarin. The word Sindarin is itself a Quenya form. The only known Sindarin word for this language is Eglathrin,[2] a word probably only used in the First Age (see Eglath).

Sindarin was the Elvish language most commonly spoken in Middle-earth during in the Third Age ...

Khuzdul is a constructed language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the many fictional languages set in Middle-earth. It was the secret language of the Dwarves.

Khuzdul was the language of the Dwarves, written with Cirth script (Runes). It appears to be...

One of the languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien's legendarium, it was spoken in the realm of Mordor. Tolkien describes the language as being created by Sauron as an (in-universe) constructed language to be the sole language of all the servants of Mordor, thereby replacing (with little success) the many different varieties of Orkish, Common Speech and other languages used by his servants. Tolkien describes the language as existing in 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 the Barad-dûr at the end of the Third Age.

The Black Speech, also known as the Dark Tongue of Mordor, was the official language of Mordor...

Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo! ~ With these words, Frodo Baggins greets a company of Elves in Woody End. With these words, too, most readers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium first encounter his invented languages of Middle-earth. Frodo’s greeting is in Quenya, or High-elven, which together with Sindarin, or Grey-elven, is one of the two chief Elvish languages of Middle-earth. All of the Elvish poems, songs, exclamations, spells, and invocations encountered in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and The Children of Húrin, are in one or the other of these two languages, as are most of the non-English names of people and places.

Various languages are used in J.R.R. Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth, including The...

By taking bits of his favourite real-world languages and splicing them together.

According to Pengolodh, the sage of Gondolin, the making of a language is the chief character of an Incarnate. The speaking peoples used languages to communicate. The first of those races were the Dwarves who were taught by Aulë and then the Elves, who called themselves Kwendî, the "Speakers".

What does it mean when one culture changes or vanishes from the Earth? How does a language influence or embody a given culture? And what does it mean to a people, or to the rest of the world, when a language dies?