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'The Rings of Power' Episode 7 Deep Dive | House of R

The Ringer-Verse

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Tolkien's Love of Language

Tolkien wrote an essay on inventing his own language called the secret vice. There are 90 different languages that he created for Lord of the Rings. It's like the language is the seed and it's planting it in the garden of the story. We have this email from Andrew that I really love about episode six, last week's battle episode when the orcs and add our first enter the watchtower only to find it empty. Add our tells the orcs in black speech to search it. And nor then commands the horde also in black speech. All of you fan out. Find them. My heart stopped when I heard the black speech word at the end of this command is clearly gimbat

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