How Do You Speak In Orc?

Writer J.R.R. Tolkien created an entire cultural history to underpin his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Among the races of Middle Earth are the Orcs, an evil species who serve various villains in the story. Tolkien was a linguist, and the languages of Middle Earth are quite sophisticated as are the developmental relationships among them. One of the least developed, however, is the Orc language making it difficult to master. Study the history of the Orcs. This has in fact been the subject of considerable scholarly debate, as it appears Tolkien was not himself fully resolved on this matter. It is generally said that the Orcs were made by the god-like but corrupt Melkor (sometimes later referred to as Morgoth) from Elves that he captured and perverted. Though the means by which this was accomplished are not clear, it seems the Orcs became a race unto themselves. It is possible, therefore, that their language is also rooted in one of the Elvish dialects. This suggests that a study of the ...  more