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Welcome to the Black Speech School, the place where you can learn the language of Orcs, Nazgûls and other Mordor's inhabitants.
If you are interested only in Tolkien's canonical Black Speech I advise you to read the article “Canonical”.
If you don't mind against fans' additions (Neo Black Speech, Neo-Orcish), start with Dialects page to understand where various dictionaries and grammatic rules used in this site have come from.
The site was changed recently, so if you're looking for older version, it was moved to Shadowlandian section.
“ The languages of Men were from their beginning diverse and various; yet they were for the most part derived remotely from the language of the Valar. <...> But other Men learned also wholly or in part of the Orcs and of the Dwarves;
HOME vol. 5, The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Two, Chapter V: The Lhammas, p. 195
Latest news
2024-08-03 New tengwar modes added to BSSScribe! Release notes
2024-06-28 Black Speech School site moved
Black Speech School site is now hosted at http://blackspeech.de domain or alternatively at http://blackspeech.tw1.ru/. Old .ru address was intercepted. Beware of any malicious activity that might be hosted at the old address!
I hope, I've fixed all internal links. You can report broken links at Discord server (link at the top of blog's main page).
Sorry for inconvenience.
2024-04-14 Nûrlâm's lessons released!
The first 10 lessons of Nûrlâm dialect are now out!
Feel free to ask questions or report mistakes here in the comments or in Discord channel.
2024-03-23 Big Transcriber update Release notes
2024-03-09 New article: Orcish lullaby based on the Lay of Leithian
I’ll sing ye famous song, how in the days of yore,When flat was our world, when Rings have not yet been made,Our first Dark Lord defeated was by Elfin maid,Where others failed; Tinúviel was name of her.
Idea of making a lullaby from Lay of Leithian came to me after reading a Russian translation of “Beren and Luthien” book, where line “Down crumpled Orc, down Balrog proud” resembled the song “Sleep tired toys, books are asleep…” from a children show. But making a lullaby for Orcs required changes to be made, for example baby-orc should be afraid of Lúthien. I've also made a quick research to be sure that scary lullabies are the thing in almost every culture.