Film Use
For The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, the linguist David Salo used what little is known of the Black Speech to invent two phrases:
- Gu kibum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha-gum-ishi ashi gurum.
- ("No life in coldness, in darkness. Here in void, only death.")
The word burzum-ishi ('in darkness') is taken from the Ring Verse, and three other abstract nouns are invented with the same ending –um. The word ashi, meaning 'only', is taken from ash ('one') in the Ring Verse. The other words were made up by D. Salo.
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