====== Abbreviations ======
This site tries to avoid excessive use of abbreviations but they are common thing in referring Tolkien's works.
===== Tolkien sources =====
^ Abbreviation ^ Meaning ^
| BOLT | Book of Lost Tales (The History of Middle-Earth, vol. 1 & 2) |
| FOTR | The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings I) |
| GL   | The Gnomish Lexicon, published in appendices to Book of Lost Tales (partially) and Parma Eldalamberon #11 |
| HOME | The History of Middle-Earth |
| LOTR | The Lord of the Rings |
| LR   | The Lost Road and Other Writings (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 5) containing Etymologies chapter |
| NM   | The Nature Of Middle-Earth |
| OC   | [[Orcish curse]] |
| PM   | The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 12) |
| PN   | [[personal_names|personal name]] |
| QL   | The Qenya Lexicon, published in Parma Eldalamberon #12 |
| RGEO | The Road Goes Ever On |
| RI   | [[ring-verse|Ring Inscription]] |
| ROTK | The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings III)|
| SD   | Sauron Defeated (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 9) |
| TH   | The Hobbit |
| TI   | The Treason of Isengard (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 7) |
| TT   | The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings II) |
| UT   | The Unfinished Tales |
| WJ   | The War of Jewels (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 11) |
| WR   | The War of the Ring (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 8) |

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===== Fan sources =====
^ Abbreviation ^ Meaning ^
| OG | [[orc_greeting|an orc greeting by Andrew]] |
| OV | [[Olympic_verse|Olympic Verse by Lalaith]] |
| PE | Parma Eldalamberon journal |
| RV | [[elerrina_list|the whole Ring Verse by Elerrina]] |
| VT | Vinyar Tengwar journal |

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===== People ======
^ Abbreviation ^ Meaning ^
| AA | Anthony Appleyard |
| AN | "Andrew", author of [[orc_greeting|"Orc-greeting"]] |
| BA | Björn Axén, author of Zhâburi dialects |
| DS | David Salo, a linguist who worked on the languages of J.R.R. Tolkien for the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy and The Hobbit|
| EK | Édouard (Edward) J. Kloczko, contributor to a lot of journals, books and societies about J.R.R. Tolkien's works |
| EL | "Elerrina", author of [[elerrina_list|full Ring-verse translation]], probably nickname of Julian Bradfield, editor of Quettar journal |
| LL | "Lalaith", author of [[Olympic_verse|"Olympic verse"]] |
| RE | Rob Eaglestone, author of [[black_speech_dialects#Horngoth|Horngoth dialect]] |
| TK | J.R.R. Tolkien or Christopher Tolkien |
| UNF | Un4givenOrc, author of [[Nûrlâm]] dialect and [[http://blackspeech.ru|Black Speech School]] site|

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===== Linguistics =====
^ Abbreviation ^ Meaning ^
| AO | [[angband_orcish|1st Age Angband Orcish]] (Orquin) |
| BS | Black Speech |
| CBS | Classical Black Speech (since 2nd Age) |
| DBS | Debased Black Speech |

==== Dialects ====
^ Abbreviation ^ Meaning ^
| EH   | Unnamed compilative dialect by unknown linguist from page http://elhath.tripod.com/powl.htm |
| HG   | Horngoth Orkish |
| HORN | Horngoth Orkish |
| LOS  | Shadowlandian dialect by Scatha from "Mordor, Land Of Shadow" message board |
| LP   | LOTR Fanatics Plaza forums (www.lotrplaza.com - now dead, https://www.lotrfanaticsplaza.com/forum/ - attempt to revive) |
| MB   | Mugbûrz Orkish |
| MERP | [[merp|Middle-Earth Role Play]] |
| NL   | [[Nûrlâm]], dialect described in this wiki |
| ON   | [[http://www.angelfire.com/ia/orcishnations/orcishphrases.html|Orcish Nations]] site, see MERP |
| PO   | David Salo's Proto-Orkish |
| SV   | Svartiska Orkish |
| ZA   | Zhâburi A |
| ZB   | Zhâburi B |
See [[black_speech_dialects|Dialects]] page for some short information about them.

==== Glossing ====
The following abbreviations are used for [[translation|interlinear glossing]] when translating from Black Speech to English (harder to use for backward translation). Exotic terms are usually avoided (like some rare locative cases) in favor of direct translations into English, but they are presented in this list.

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