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You can also select a skin representing your race for a more immersive roleplay experience. To learn more about alignment and its benefits, see here. The main choice is: Good or Evil? After that, you can choose a more specific faction with which you can gain alignment. Rovanic (the language of Rhovanion) = Gothic For example, Sam and his father Ham's names were actually Ran and Ban. In the books, several languages related to Westron are represented by a real life one instead of the actual one used in Middle-earth. Therefore there is also a dedicated pronunciation guide for the words introduced in the mod. In many cases Sindarin is used for that purpose.
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The mod uses a range of various made-up words to describe the myriad of features the mod adds. Two trusted and recommended sources on Sindarin are: There are various guides on the pronunciation of the languages constructed by Tolkien. Names of Middle-earth: A helpful glossary providing quick aide in finding names for roleplaying with the mod for those who don't feel like fiddling with the lingo too much to create names themselves.The Dwarrow Scholar: A website dedicated to Dwarvish.: A extensive namelist for Quenya, Sindarin, and Adunaic names.Eldamo: A lexicon of Tolkien's langauges.It enables understanding of the various (related) languages and helps in creating customised names. Parf Edhellen: A very extensive dictionary that registered almost any word Tolkien has created in his works.
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We do not intend to provide a full overview of all possibly relevant dictionaries available on the web, but here's a few sources that have proven valuable and can be considered sufficiently consistent. Names are usually two ugly noises mashed together- like Gorbag, Grishnakh, or Shagrat. Orkish, the language of the fearsome Orcs is generally rough and hideous-sounding. In the Lord of the Rings books, Rohirric is represented by Old English. In this language most likely lie the origins of the word "hobbit", holbytla, which means "hole-dwellers". It is a more ancient version of Westron, and many words in it are the same or very similar. Rohirric, this language is used by the Rohirrim, which are descendants of the Northmen of Rhovanion. In the Lord of the Rings books, Westron is represented by English. Westron, the most common language in western Middle-earth, it is a creole form of Adûnaic, and is used nearly everywhere in the West because the Numenoreans visited and traded with nearly all of the places in western Middle-earth. A good example of Khuzdul is the dwarven war cry "Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!" which means "Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!". Haradric or Easterling names were derived from these.
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This language is used by men from Black Numenorean kingdoms in the Third Age. "Ar-Pharazôn", the name of the last king of Numenor, is an Adûnaic word. Adûnaic, the language of the Numenoreans. The poem A Elbereth Gilthoniel is written in Sindarin. This is by far the most common form of Elvish used in Middle Earth, Quenya being used for more ceremonial matters. Sindarin, the language of the Sindar that stayed in Beleriand while the others followed the Valar across the ocean. Quenya, especially the Noldorin variant, the language of the High Elves who came to Middle Earth, is only used as a ceremonial language in the Third Age. You can create a name for your character using one of the many dictionaries freely available on Internet, such as Ambar Eldaron (beware though, as these dictionaries are not precise enough to be considered as references). He wrote all his stories around the fictional languages he created as a hobby. Before being a writer, Tolkien was a linguist.