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The Lhammas is the name of a work of fiction of etymological subject by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published in The Lost Road and Other Writings, volume V of The History of Middle-earth. The Lhammas represents an old linguistic view of the languages of Middle-earth which was later dropped, in which all languages belonged to either the Valarin, Oromėan, Aulėan or Melkian phylums.- The Valarin phylum is the origin of all other phylums, and led to Valarin (the language of the Valar.)
- Oromėan is named after the Vala Oromė, and is used for all languages of the Elves, because Oromė taught the Elves language. Most languages of Men also belong to this phylum.
- Aulėan is named after the Vala Aulė, father of the DwarvesKhazad" redirects here. See KHAZAD for the block cipher named after Khazad-dum. The Dwarves of J. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth are beings of short stature, often friendly with Hobbits although long suspicious of Elves. They are typically b, and is the origin of the KhuzdulKhuzdul is the fictional language of the Dwarves in J. Tolkien's Middle-earth, written with Cirth script. It appears to be structured, like the Semitic languages, around triconsonantal roots: kh-z-d b-n-d z-g-l''. Not much is known of the language, as the language. It has had some influences on the tongues of Men.
- Melkian is named after the fallen Vala Melkor or Morgoth, and is the origin of the Black SpeechThe term Black Speech can also refer to African-American Vernacular English. The Black Speech is the fictional language of Mordor in The Lord of the Rings''. Sauron created the Black Speech, as an artificial language, to be the sole language of all the se of the OrcOrc or Ork an Old English word ('orc-neas' from Beowulf) for the zombie-like monsters of Grendel's race was revived by J. Tolkien in his Middle-earth legendarium. For the origin of the word and its usage in other fantasy works, see: Orc. In Tolkien's writs and other evil beings.
This entire etymology was dropped as Tolkien further revised the linguistic history of his world, and cannot be applied to the later languages of Middle-earth.
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