Editing Black Speech (section)

== In film and music ==

For Peter Jackson's [[The Lord of the Rings (film series)|''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy]], the [[linguistics|linguist]] [[David Salo]] used what little is known of the Black Speech to invent two phrases:<ref name="Salo 2013">{{cite web |last=Salo |first=David |author-link=David Salo |title=David Salo on Black Speech, orc dialects and the mind of Sauron |url=http://midgardsmal.com/the-mind-of-the-dark-lord/ <!--https://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/09/03/78341-david-salo-on-black-speech-orc-dialects-and-the-mind-of-sauron/ republished--> |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130707054848/http://midgardsmal.com/the-mind-of-the-dark-lord/ |archive-date=7 July 2013 |url-status=dead |publisher=[[David Salo]], on Midgardsmal |access-date=25 August 2020 |date=24 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Susan Lampert |date=19 January 2003 |title=Linguist Is A Specialist In Elvish, The Uw Grad Student Provides Translations For Lord Of The Rings Movies. |pages=C1 |work=[[Wisconsin State Journal]] |publisher=William K. Johnston |url=http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/madison.com/html/archive_files/wsj/2003/01/19/0301180299.php |access-date=14 November 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041205101246/http://www.madison.com/wisconsinstatejournal/local/40925.php |archive-date=5 December 2004 |issn=0749-405X}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Soundtrack Analysis |url=https://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_soundtrack_fotr.htm |website=Elvish.org |access-date=18 November 2022 |quote=Featured in 'The Treason of Isengard'}}</ref>

: ''Gû kîbum kelkum-ishi, burzum-ishi. Akha gûm-ishi ashi gurum.''
: ("No life in coldness, in darkness. Here in void, only death.")

The word ''burzum-ishi'' ('in darkness') is taken from the Ring Verse, and three other abstract nouns are invented with the same ending ''–um''.  The word ''ashi'', meaning 'only', is taken from ''ash'' ('one') in the Ring Verse. The other words were made up by Salo.<ref name="Salo 2013"/>