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 The first wordlist was published in "Lords of Middle-Earth: Vol. III -- Hobbits, Dwarves, Ents, Orcs & Trolls" (ICE8004, 1989). It was compiled from the previous publications. Out of ~150 words almost a half were Icelandic borrowings and few were from Sindarin. These Sindarin words were pluralized according to Sindarin rules.
-The second wordlist was published the same year in supplement book "Empire of the Witch-king" (ICE4020, 1989) reprinted in 2nd Edition as "Angmar" (ICE2018, 1995). It contained more than 1200 new words, almost 500 of which were Albanian borrowings. So it's safe to assume that Orkish dialect of MERP is primarily spoken in Angmar. However, the same words were used in the Gorgoroth supplement.
+The second wordlist was published the same year in supplement book "Empire of the Witch-king" (ICE4020, 1989) reprinted in 2nd Edition as "Angmar" (ICE2018, 1995). It contained more than 1200 new words, almost 500 of which were Albanian borrowings. So it's safe to assume that Orkish dialect of MERP is primarily spoken in Angmar. However, the same words were used in the Gorgoroth supplement from 1990.
 MERP also had a plenty of NPCs and bosses' names (Orcs and Trolls) as well as names for their tribes, with many of them untranslated.

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