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+====== Olympic Verse ======
+Olympic Verse was made in times of Barcelona Olympics (1992) by The List Goddess a.k.a. Lalaith ([[abbreviations|LL]]) in TOLKIEN email periodical (tolkien@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu) and sent from there by Klaus Ole Kristiansen to TolkLang 4.25:
   Crak nazgu bugdatuluk
   crak nazgu prakhatul
   crak nazgu srinkhatuluk
   agh Barcelonum ghashum-ishi throquatul
+The translation:
   Five Rings to call them all,
   Five Rings to lure them
   Five Rings to gather all
   and in Barcelona's heat devour them.
+It seems that Lalaith didn't care for diacritic marks (attested Tolkien words //ûk// and //ghâsh// were without them here), used strange spelling "crak" (should be either "krak" or "crac" if //c// here is not a distinct sound like [t͡s]) and sound "qu" unusual for Black Speech. However adding or omitting diacritic marks is often used in [[black_speech_dialects|Neo-Black Speech dialects]] for word derivation. She used //-u// as plural suffix which became a rule in Shadowlandian (compare with //-i// in Elerrina's [[elerrina_list|ring verse translation]]). Finally, the word list borrowed from Olympic Verse excluding Tolkien roots:
+^ English ^ Black Speech ^ Etymology and comments ^
+| call | bugd- | LL |
+| devour | throkh- | LL "throqu-" |
+| five | krak | LL, spelling normalized |
+| gather | srinkh- | LL |
+| heat | ghashum | TK BS "ghâsh" (fire) |
+| lure | prakh- | LL |

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