Neo-Black Speech

Neo-Black Speech is the conventional name of various attempts of expand Black Speech, the language of the servants of Sauron, invented by J.R.R. Tolkien.
==History==
Because Tolkien intended Black Speech to sound unpleasant and harsh, he did not enjoy writing in it, and for this reason he created very little vocabulary. Thus, for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, linguist David Salo expanded on what words were known, to provide words in new phrases, used primarily in the soundtrack. Salo's additions were the first major expansion to be called "Neo-Black Speech". In The Hobbit movie trilogy, at one point in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Azog speaks to the Necromancer in the Black Speech.
Some Orcs in certain adaptations know nothing of Black Speech, such as Ratbag in Middle-earth: Shadow of War (2017), who cannot understand one of his Olog-hai friends.
One substantial Neo-Black Speech lexicon, called "Shadowlandian Black Speech", was invented by fans sometime before 2014 at the website Mordor ~ The Land of Shadow.
==External links==
*thelandofshadow.com
Category:Neo-Languages