What’s in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug etc.

18.12.13, 10:02, dodany przez Galadhorn

Yesterday evening I could see The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug in IMAX (Katowice, Poland). Last year we tried to find out all the linguistic elements of the last movie (the results can be seen here: Complete analysis of the Sindarin dialogs and Hobbit’s Quenya, Orkish and Khuzdûl!). Let us do the same with H:DoS! It will be more complicated. I could hear there great amount of Sindarin (especially in the dialogs between Legolas and Tauriel; some phrases by Thranduil), a lot of Orkish (Azog, Bolg and their Orkish soldiers), some Black Speech (by Sauron – terrible demonic scene!), some Quenya (by Gandalf) and not so many Khuzdûl. I could see a lot of beautiful runes (mainly Angerthas Erebor) – on the back doors of the Lonely Mountain, on Kili’s talisman, inside of Erebor. There were even some Orkish signs! I liked semi-Scottish accent of the inhabitants of Esgaroth. The Lake Town has become one of my most favourite locations in the whole cycle of the Middle-earth movies by Peter Jackson. I would love to know your opinion about these – mentioned above – elements of the new movie. Help me to find out the linguistic secrets of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug!

Some of them are alredy beeing discussed on the TORn Message Board (see here). We can find there a picture of Kili’s talisman, the Sindarin phrases like ú-dangada e orchal ‚I do not understand the king’, Legolas or man os Tauriel? ‚What about Tauriel?’. They discuss the name of the Starlight Feast (Mereth in-Gil?). In my humble opininion the Cirth on Kili’s talisman read something like *ingikh’ di. The interesting research has already began…

And today I would like to come back for a while to the extended edition of The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey. There is Sindarin dialog between Elrond and Lindir which has not been still analyzed by the Gwaith-i-Phethain. In English it is  rendered as follows:

Lindir: «The kitchen is under enormous strain, we are almost out of wine. How long do you think they will be with us?»

Elrond: «That has yet to be decided.»

What my Polish collegue, Kemmuel, could hear is as follows: (for the discussion see here):

Lindir: Saim e-mbar a chabed athar glaind ne hi pen in miruvor. Manan in gardh na men i darthathar har?

[Lit. ‚Chambers of the house ? beyond limits; for now [they are] without the wines. How ? with us they will stay ?]

Elrond: Mendar uvornor [?].

Maybe together we could resolve this puzzle?

We have found also some linguistic material in the beautiful publication The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles. Creatures and Characters. There is some new Khuzdûl there, eg.

Gelekh d’ashrud bark ‚Time to swing an axe’ (p. 80)

Nê ikrid ûdar! ‚Never trust the wizard’ (p. 80)

Ikhf’ id-ursu khazâd ‚Feel the fire of the Dwarves’ (p. 97)

Imrid amrad ursul ‚Die a death of flames!’ (p. 97)

Nê ikrid alfer ‚Never trust an Elf’

Finally we received also the spell of Radagast in Quenya (p. 124):

Radagast: Cementari celvameldë, sí a hlarë ómaquettar.
Lerya laman naiquentallo, na coilerya envinyanta!

[Lit. ‘Cementari animal-friend, now listen voice-words. Release [the] animal from sharp pain, be its life renewed!’]

G-i-P stands for Gwaith-i-Phethain, ‘The Fellowship of the Word-smiths’ or the linguistic website devoted to post-Tolkienian constructions in the “reconstructed” languages of Middle-earth [link].

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