Useless
Words and Phrases in Classical Balrog
Most of the Balrog terms used here are in Balrog-pidgin, sometimes called Tyopese after Tyope, the
Goddess of Being Weird. Among these are mlorat (mortal), hmunsa (human), ruggle (non-balrog).
Another such term is “bha!”, used by Balrogs to exress mild annoynce with lesser beings. Among
themselves, however, Balrogs speak a far more euphonious language, Classical Balrog, whereof we give
a few
examples here.
Classcial
Blarog has some 57
"tenses" and 19 "moods," all of them nasty. (Count)
And 23
injunctions, doesn't it?
(Öjevind)
Not to
mention a great deal of stress --
all on the wrong syllable. (LF)
subject is a balrog, a non-balrog ainu, or anything else. For balrogs,
the verb
gives the exact number of balrogs, and there's also a form for all
balrogs,
which a balrog uses for 1st person singular when addressing non-balrogs.
Verbs also automatically provide a value judgement (properly, politely,
civilly,
graciously, rudely, improperly, etc.) and aesthetic judgement
(elegantly, with
éclat, boringly, disgustingly, etc.).
And verbs whose subject is a balrog also indicate by what means the
action was
done:
with a tool or slave
with a limb or appendage
with heat
with flame
with slime
and with one of 6 different types of magic, not counting heat (I can't
say
which, because non-balrogs wouldn't understand).
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"gobbledygook"
(often used as
a derogatory term for elvish)
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"May the annoying elf push you into the fountain!" (often used to express disgust at pitifully
underdeveloped
mortal tongues, and their speakers.)
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A slimy, squeezy, flammable snake toy that Rogs play with in their first century or two of existence. Da fangs
is
cute!
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"Space-time
continuum," to
translate into rather ugly mlorat. Bha!
Each Rog "year" is 547 hmunsa years (why? why not). Count Tildanor was born in 64 Second Age, and is
14, 553
hmunsa years and a little over 27 Rog years old. (Was the Second Age
really
that recent?)
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Roggish
for what the Elves call Utumno
in their ignorance.
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Roggish
for "Count" - or at
least, the title of The Count in Roggish.
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Soccer,
which among Balrogs was an
ephemeral sport played with Elves or Dwarves until these disintegrated.
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and
Apparently
Balrog has two words
corresponding to English "magic", and these mean completely different
things. But there are probably in fact several more words ...
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"My blue penguin trasks a pink banana." (This is of course very approximative; and the dialect is rather
obscure.) The saying originates from an amuzzling incarnating-party in Antarctica held by the Angband
Brothers.
If you change the final ! into ¦, the meaning changes to "... lilac banana ...", which has completely
different connotations.
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