Black Speech  ✦  phrase

A "yellow-fanged" Mordor Orc cursing the Uruk Uglúk

One of the few examples of the horrid Black Speech.

About this phrase

In The Peoples of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien gives the translation: "Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! the dungfilth; the great Saruman-fool, skai!". However, in a note published in the journal Vinyar Tengwar, it is translated: "Uglúk to the dung-pit with stinking Saruman-filth, pig-guts, gah!" We have chosen to retain the original translation offered by Christopher Tolkien.

Source
LotR/445; PM/83
Language
Black Speech
Contributed by
Aldaleon
Published
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