LORD OF THE RINGS ROLEPLAY ON SECONDLIFE

History and information on actual languages of middle earth and the sim.

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All races can speak the Common Tongue, a debased and pidginized form of Numenorean, which is rendered on our Sim by the Standard American English dialect. If nobles wish to sound less common, they may use the Received Pronunciation dialect of British English to render royal Numenorean. Similarly rendering debased Common dialects can be done with any non-standard English dialect. 

Players of all ethnicities are welcome and encouraged to use a built-in translator in their SL viewer of choice to translate their language into English and back again. Posting in a non-English language is perfectly acceptable, provided that it is followed immediately by an English translation. It is the non-English speaker's responsibility to provide English translation of his or her posts and not the responsibility of the readers to translate it. For information on how to set up an AI translator on your viewer, consult the online documentation for your viewer.

Besides the Common Tongue, different races also have their own ancestral languages.

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    The Edain (Humans) and the Cursed Men speak Numenorean*, which derived from Sindarin* elvish.
    The Elves all speak Sindarin, but the high elves and some of the more nobly born wood elves can also use Quenya*.
    The Hobbits speak their own dialect of common Tongue, with hobbitish words like Mathom or Thain thrown in.
    The Minions of Morder speak a very debased form of Common Tongue as well as Black Speech*.
    The Ents speak Entish*
    The Fae speak Quenya
    The Beornings speak their own rough-sounding dialect of Common Tongue
    
    The Dwarves speak  Khuzi spoken in LOTR. It is a secret a language more spoken in common form these days to non Dwarves. 

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Caldor means land of Light and Minas Amdir means fortress of hope. Both are Numenorean names from Sindarin

Aranië Olla Nen means kingdom above the water in Quenya    

Kheled Mor means The Great Delvings and Kor̂ek Sabal means Mountain of Warning.

 Khur̂in means "Person of Spirit" and is gender neutral
    
Bor̂elek means "Bold one" and Kavarek means "Courageous One"

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