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To: nickcarraway
And the ring had these strange-looking characters engraved ...

" ... ash nazg durbatuluk ..."

6 posted on 12/31/2011 11:20:40 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats:always looking for someone else to blame)
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To: eCSMaster

Beat me to it!


15 posted on 12/31/2011 12:03:43 PM PST by GreenLanternCorps ("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
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To: eCSMaster
From Lord of the Rings

(the ring-inscription is said to be written in the Black Speech, a language devised by Sauron and used in his land of Mordor. It is written in tengwar.)

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The Tengwar[1] are an artificial script created by J. R. R. Tolkien. In his fictional universe of Middle-earth, the tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elven tongues: Quenya, Telerin, and also Valarin. Later a great number of languages of Middle-earth were written using the tengwar, including Sindarin. Tolkien used tengwar to write English: most of Tolkien's tengwar samples are actually in English.

--One_Ring_Inscription

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,

Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

Translated, the words mean:

One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them,

One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

28 posted on 01/01/2012 6:03:25 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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