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Translation of Barrow-wight's spell

I am intending to translate some less-known songs from the Lord of the Rings which may be associated with the forces of Evil into Nûrlâm. And Barrow-wight's magical incantation is the first in the series. Read at Black Speech School's wiki.

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...

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.

Analysis of Ring Inscription by J.R.R. Tolkien himself

I've started my own dialect of Neo Black Speech called "Nûrlâm" in the late 2018 as a subdialect of Shadowlandian (LOS). But the work with direct sources lead to discovery that everything was wrong...

Notice: this is repost of older article from 2020 published on the Black Speech School forum, with some mistakes corrected.