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This site tries to avoid excessive use of abbreviations but they are common thing in referring Tolkien's works.
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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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 |
OC | Orcish curse |
PM | The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-earth, vol. 12) |
PN | personal name |
QL | The Qenya Lexicon, published in Parma Eldalamberon #12 |
RGEO | The Road Goes Ever On |
RI | 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) |
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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OG | an orc greeting by Andrew |
OV | Olympic Verse by Lalaith |
PE | Parma Eldalamberon journal |
RV | the whole Ring Verse by Elerrina |
VT | Vinyar Tengwar journal |
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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AO | 1st Age Angband Orcish (Orquin) |
BS | Black Speech |
CBS | Classical Black Speech (since 2nd Age) |
DBS | Debased Black Speech |
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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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” |
MB | Mugbûrz Orkish |
MERP | Middle-Earth Role Play |
NL | Nûrlâm, dialect described in this wiki |
ON | Orcish Nations site, see MERP |
PO | David Salo's Proto-Orkish |
SV | Svartiska Orkish |
ZA | Zhâburi A |
ZB | Zhâburi B |
See Dialects page for some short information about them.
Abbreviation | Meaning |
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AA | Antony Appleyard |
AN | “Andrew”, author of "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 full Ring-verse translation, probably nickname of Julian Bradfield, editor of Quettar journal |
LL | “Lalaith”, author of "Olympic verse" |
RE | Rob Eaglestone, author of Horngoth dialect |
TK | J.R.R. Tolkien or Christopher Tolkien |
UNF | Un4givenOrc, author of Nûrlâm dialect and Black Speech School site |