tolkienlanguages1-8  Exercise 3: Sound as Character
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A sample answer.

  Elves:  Quenya (Finnish-like) and Sindarin (Welsh-like): flowing,
          musical sounds that fit a graceful, ancient people.
  Dwarves: Khuzdul, built on Hebrew and Semitic languages: hard,
          consonant-rooted words that fit a secretive, enduring people.
  Orcs:   the Black Speech: harsh sounds (sh, gh, zg), made to be ugly,
          fitting a people made by Sauron.

The reader of the English book meets the Common Speech (Westron) as ordinary
English, and Rohan's speech as Old English. The other languages are marked by
contrast.