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- The Black Speech was a language devised by Sauron during the Dark Years to be the sole language of the servants of Mordor, replacing the many different varieties of Orcish and other languages. It may have been a standardised form of regional Orcish tongues combined with elements of Valarin, the Eldest Speech.
- The Black Speech, also known as the Dark Tongue of Mordor, was the official language of Mordor. Sauron created the Black Speech to be the unifying language of all the servants of Mordor, used along with different varieties of Orkish and other languages used by his servants.
- The language of Mordor, spoken only by The One Whose Name Must Never Be Uttered and his evil Cult. An indecipherable language that is cruel to the ears, full of hard consonants, guttural sounds, and always spoken loudly and harshly. Every word sounds like a blasphemy against All That Is Good, and the people speaking it often are as evil as they sound. If there is magic in the setting, expect speaking this language to be necessary to use Black Magic. In some cases, it is so alien and gravelly that it seems that a normal human throat should be incapable of speaking it...and sometimes, they can't speak it, only those with the Voice of the Legion can.
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| Description | - 忘れ去られし Lugbûrz の下劣な言葉を唱える。この呪文に宿る恐怖で敵の心は弱まる
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- The Black Speech was a language devised by Sauron during the Dark Years to be the sole language of the servants of Mordor, replacing the many different varieties of Orcish and other languages. It may have been a standardised form of regional Orcish tongues combined with elements of Valarin, the Eldest Speech.
- The language of Mordor, spoken only by The One Whose Name Must Never Be Uttered and his evil Cult. An indecipherable language that is cruel to the ears, full of hard consonants, guttural sounds, and always spoken loudly and harshly. Every word sounds like a blasphemy against All That Is Good, and the people speaking it often are as evil as they sound. If there is magic in the setting, expect speaking this language to be necessary to use Black Magic. In some cases, it is so alien and gravelly that it seems that a normal human throat should be incapable of speaking it...and sometimes, they can't speak it, only those with the Voice of the Legion can. This is The Black Speech, the default mode of communication for the Designated Villain, and the sonic equivalent to black in Color Coded for Your Convenience. Where the elves and humans will speak in a pleasing, song-like language, and dwarves may (read: always) have a charming Scottish burr or Welsh brogue , the Evil Minions using Black Speech can shatter glass and eardrums with a simple "pass the salt". On a more meta level, this is a direct emotional appeal to the viewer, invoking the "otherness" felt when hearing a foreign language crossed with the Scare Chord to make the good guys seem like downright saints compared to the bad guys. The effect is sometimes doubled by having Aliens Natives Speaking English. Once upon a time, Nazis speaking German were considered to be using Black Speech (likely, the actors were hamming it up to sound scarier). Nowadays, German is just another language alongside French. Using real but obscure languages as models for a fictional Black Speech owing to their very peculiar sound can get you into trouble. This seems to happen to Native American languages quite a bit. Not to be confused with Ebonics. Please. Examples of Black Speech include:
- The Black Speech, also known as the Dark Tongue of Mordor, was the official language of Mordor. Sauron created the Black Speech to be the unifying language of all the servants of Mordor, used along with different varieties of Orkish and other languages used by his servants.
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