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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 Orcs were first bred by the Dark Power of the North in the Elder Days. It is said that they had no language of their own, but took what they could of other tongues and perverted it to their own liking; yet they made only brutal jargons, scarcely sufficient even for their own needs, unless it were for curses and abuse. And these creatures, being filled with malice, hating even their own kind, quickly developed as many barbarous dialects as there were groups or settlements of their race, so that their Orkish speech was of little use to them in intercourse between different tribes.
LOTR III, Appendix F, Of other races, p. 1486
Latest news
2024-09-29 Translation of Orcish lullaby based on the Lay of Leithian was finished!
Previously, I published an Orcish lullaby based on the Lay of Leithian composed in English. And after a long time the poetical translation into Nûrlâm is now complete! You can read it at Nûrlâm's wiki.
By the way, the Nûrlâm's dictionary now has more than 2000 words! But a significant revision is coming...
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
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