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  2. Black Speech - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien's attitude to the Black Speech is revealed in one of his letters. From a fan, Tolkien received a goblet with the Ring inscription on it in Black Speech. Because the Black Speech in general is an accursed language, and the Ring inscription in particular is a vile spell, Tolkien never drank out of the goblet, and used it only as an ...

  3. Tengwar - Wikipedia

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    The two-line inscription on the One Ring, written in the Black Speech of Mordor using Tengwar: "Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul / ash nazg thrakatulûk, agh burzum-ishi krimpatul". Tengwar "atul" element recurring in the ring inscription. The Tengwar script was probably developed in the late 1920s or in the early 1930s.

  4. Sound and language in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Among other features, the sound /I:/ (like the "i" in "machine") is much rarer in Black Speech than in Elvish, while the sound /u/ (like the "u" in "brute") is much more common. She comments that in aggressive speech, consonants become longer and vowels shorter, so Black Speech sounds harsher.

  5. Poetry in The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    The poetry in The Lord of the Rings consists of the poems and songs written by J. R. R. Tolkien, interspersed with the prose of his high fantasy novel of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings. The book contains over 60 pieces of verse of many kinds; some poems related to the book were published separately.

  6. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil - Wikipedia

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    The Adventures of Tom Bombadil is a 1962 collection of poetry by J. R. R. Tolkien. The book contains 16 poems, two of which feature Tom Bombadil, a character encountered by Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings. The rest of the poems are an assortment of bestiary verse and fairy tale rhyme. Three of the poems appear in The Lord of the Rings as

  7. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in ... - AOL

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    I learned that Langston Hughes wrote a poem about Black voters in Miami while researching a story six years ago. In “The Ballad of Sam Solomon,” Hughes documents how Overtown resident Samuel B ...

  8. Namárië - Wikipedia

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    The first stanza of "Namárië", a Quenya poem written in Tengwar script "Namárië" (pronounced [na.ˈmaː.ri.ɛ]) is a poem by J. R. R. Tolkien written in one of his constructed languages, Quenya, and published in The Lord of the Rings. [T 1] It is subtitled "Galadriel's Lament in Lórien", which in Quenya is Altariello nainië Lóriendessë.

  9. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    But it was Dr. King's iconic "I Have a Dream" speech that immediately took its place as one of the greatest in U.S. history. SEE MORE: 8 Martin Luther King Jr. quotes that raise eyebrows instead ...