elvish pronounciation

[Nightwing]

How do you say "One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
in Elvish?

I have the lines written in Elvish, but how do you pronounce it?

[Wayfarer]

You mean, written in black speech?

If you really want elvish, there's a key on how to pronounce elvish words in theb ack of the LOTR,k and another in the SIL.

Foir examble, c is pronounced 'K'

So, Keleborn, Karkaroth, Kurinur etc.

The black speech is basically pronounced how it's written.

Ash nazg dur-bat-a-luk. ash nazg gim-ba-tul,
ash nazg tha-ka-ta-luk, [something] krim-pa-tul bur-zum ish-i


Hmmm... I don't know if I should be happy or frightened that I can remember the ring inscription that well.

[Nightwing]

or rather... how do you write it in "normal" writing?
I don't need the pronounciation but just how it's written...

[Wayfarer]

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,
ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the Darkness bind them."

Agh! That's the word I didn't know!

[Nightwing]

So the letters engraved on the ring... this is black speach?
I thought it's elvish.

[Comic Book Guy]

If you want to know more about the Languages and Runes of Tolkien, go to the Ardalambion!.

[Wayfarer]

The letters are the tengwar of feanor. You can find out about them in the appendices.

The tongue is the Black Speeck.

That clear it up?

[Ñólendil]

You see, Tengwar is an all-purpose writing system, it was invented in such a way that it could be adapted to other tongues. Characters were invented that bore sounds that were not used in the tongue of the people who invented them, others could be changed at need.

[Selwythe]

Sort of like how you can use the alphabet to compose English, French, German, Dutch etc but you don''t pronounce them the same way, and some of those letters of the alphabet have different sounds in their native language.