Rohirric

[lathwen]

Does anyone here know how to speak Rohirric? I love Eowyn's Dirge in the extended version of The Two Towers! The language is so beautiful. If no one here knows Rohirric I'd love to learn Elvish as well.

[Elorendil]

Lathwen, learning Rohirric, as it is in the movies, really isn't all that hard. It actually is Old English, which can be learned somewhat easily, I believe.

A little on the subject of Rohirric from the website Ardalambion:

We don't know much genuine Rohirric, for in LotR, Tolkien rendered it by Old English: He tried to reproduce for English readers its archaic flavour in relationship to the Common Speech (itself represented by modern English - but it must be understood that Rohirric was not the ancestor of the Common Speech the way Old English is of modern English). Thus, names like Éomer and phrases like ferthu Théoden hál are not transcriptions of the actual words used back in the Third Age. Nonetheless, a few words of genuine Rohirric have been published. Appendix F informs us that trahan means "burrow", corresponding to genuine Hobbit trân "smial"; the language of the Hobbits had at some point in the past been influenced by Rohirric or a closely related language. Another example is Hobbit kast "mathom", corresponding to Rohirric kastu. The word hobbit itself represents the actual Third Age word kuduk, a worn-down Hobbitic form of Rohirric kûd-dûkan, "hole-dweller" - itself represented by Old English holbytla in LotR.