Orc Marching Chants & Black Speech with lyrics! (the HIDDEN meanings)
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Күн бұрынThe Black Speech in the Lord of the Rings movies is the harsh, ugly language created by Sauron in Tolkien's Middle-earth. This video explores how the language is used in the various adaptations, with a focus on hidden translations of Orc chants and other times black speech appear!
Shoutout to Weg der Fabelheit for making the video giving us inspiration for this video!
Check out the video here: • Orc Marching Chant wit...
Here are all the lyrics from the different scenes shown in the video:
Gandalf Reciting the Ring poem in Black Speech at the Concil of Elrond:
Ash nazg durbatulûk,
(Shre nazg golugranu kilmi-nudu... mmbi... ...shara)
Ash nazg gimbatul,
(Ombi kuzd-durbagu... (inaudible) ...sherkuk/sharku(-ku))
Ash nazg thrakatulûk,
(Ash (kelkum-ishi) Burz-Durbagu burzum-ishi)
Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul!
Translated:
One ring to rule them all,
(Three rings for the elven kings under the sky... mmbi... human man)
One ring to find them,
(Seven for the dwarf lords... (inaudible) ...your blood/old man)
One ring to bring them all,
(One (in the cold) for the Dark lord on his dark throne)
And in the darkness bind them!
The Uruk-Hai Chanting at Orthanc/Saruman's Speech:
Za dashu snaku Zigur, Durbgu nazgshu, Durbgu dashu!
Translated:
Hail Sauron, Lord of the Ring, Lord of the Earth!
The Orcs Marching Chant at Minas Tirith:
Katmuda!
Gorosh!
Katmuda!
Gorosh!
Katmuda!
Gorosh chadar!
Translated:
Death to men!
Louder!
Death to men!
Louder!
Death to men!
Loud enough!
Chapters:
00:00 - 00:41 Intro
00:42 - 02:03 The Origin of the Black Speech
02:04 - 03:04 Gandalf Reciting the Ring poem in Black Speech (with lyrics)
03:05 - 04:02 The Uruk-Hai Chanting at Orthanc (with lyrics)
04:03 - 04:50 The Orc Marching Chant at Minas Tirith (with lyrics)
04:51 - 06:46 The Black Speech of the Hobbit Trilogy
06:47 - 07:38 Nampat-scene from Rings of Power (with lyrics)
07:39 - 08:06 Outro
@FarFarAwayTonight 25 күн бұрын
"Louder!" "LOUDER!" "Ok, good, loud enough."
@shadowstrider8295 13 күн бұрын
"Alright guys, I appreciate the enthusiasm, but we got a long day of siege ahead of us let's try to conserve our energy."
@jbank7547 Ай бұрын
I love that Christopher Lee knows exactly what is written on the ring in black speech. really shows how much Tolkien's universe meant to him. I'm so happy he got to play a role in the movies.
@jameshoward3783 Ай бұрын
And he was perfect as Saruman
@masterchief4707 Ай бұрын
as well if you know that that Christopher Lee read the book once per year and was hit as he found out wch charakter he is playing he change the charakter multiple times as he said that is not book acurad and he would never led the professor Tolkin down and he is the only one of the cast that meet tolkin in persona
@mikeh3240 Ай бұрын
@@masterchief4707no offense, because it seems like you’re trying to say something interesting, but.. what?
@masterchief4707 Ай бұрын
@@mikeh3240 well english is not my first language so i try to write it simpler so you can understand it better christopher lee had a mantra where he reread the lord of the rings books himself every year so he made a lot of changes to the script because it didn't do justice to his version of tolkin plus he was the only person from the whole cast who met professor j r r tolkin himself and wanted to push through the version of a good movie that's also the reason why he knows the ring lines so well because he knows or rather knew almost every passage in the book by heart
@mikeh3240 Ай бұрын
@@masterchief4707 ohhh, ok thank you for clarifying. Sorry wasn’t trying to create any offense, it sounded interesting, and I was legitimately curious and it was a cool fact! Cheers.
@darikdatta Ай бұрын
Can we just take a moment to recognize Christopher Lee's badassery? Jedi, Sith, White Wizard, Dracula, heavy metal singer, and he could speak in Black with a perfect accent.
@AsliceOFtea413 29 күн бұрын
Not to mention being a veteran too and an expert duelist
@suckstoyourazmar 26 күн бұрын
When Peter Jackson was directing him in his extended edition death scene he asked Jackson "Do you know what sound a man makes when he's stabbed in the back? Because I do" he was basically spec ops in WW2
@bendrake4570 24 күн бұрын
And beeing the Inspiration for James Bond
@Maria_Bar 23 күн бұрын
And The Death himself.
@barbarosa3d239 Ай бұрын
I saw LOTR EE trilogy like a thousand times, but I have never noticed Sauron laugh at 2:49, what a shivering dark detail!
@anundo Ай бұрын
And the voice of Sauron is so damn powerful!
@jakubjanda798 Ай бұрын
2:46
@AlgernonBrosplitz 11 күн бұрын
sounds like Jabba the Hut
@jmc.spectre 9 күн бұрын
I would say, waaay darker and evil than Benedict's voice over.
@muratgunaydn4974 4 күн бұрын
Its in the extended version.
@revanofkorriban1505 Ай бұрын
On Weathertop, when Frodo puts on the Ring, you can hear Sauron or the Nazgul say "Ashi" twice. In all likelihood it means something akin to "The One," as "Nazg" is derived from the word for ring in a language used in Valinor.
@Sh5h5h Ай бұрын
That Orc screaming Gorosh!! sounds so intense.
@IllustriousCrocoduck Ай бұрын
Bro had one job and straight came to work
@bermudasbeast2302 Ай бұрын
While The Hobbit trilogy isn't popular with some fans(not me), Cumberbatch did an absolute fantastic job ❤
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
He did!
@IronFreakV Ай бұрын
while second hobbit movie is quite flawed and mostly just a CGI action schlockfest - Cumberbatch as Smaug is still one of the most memorable experiences i've had in a cinema. made the whole movie feel worth the watch, didn't know he did Sauron too but he absolutely kills it
@andrewmeyer3599 19 күн бұрын
@@IronFreakV He was out of this fucking world as Smaug, I don't know what else could be said other then that. Otherworldly
@dj_koen1265 18 күн бұрын
I didn’t like the hobbit But smaugh was definitely a highlight
@TheDrunkenJedi1 27 күн бұрын
Seeing christopher lee speaking black speech like its his first language just shows what a great actor he really was, the guy was one of the most talented actors to ever live and gave 10/10 performances everytime we saw him.
@antonakesson 20 күн бұрын
Also what a big nerd he was for Tolkien XD
@justzeke9939 Ай бұрын
Apparently they also recorded Benedict speaking the black speech backwards and then played it in reverse to really give it that dark and unnatural feel and that's what they used in the movie
@jorgedeanoperez2997 Ай бұрын
Phenomenal video, mate
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
Thank you :)
@jonakchakrabarti8051 Ай бұрын
Yeah, really. Loved it.
@monoverantus Ай бұрын
2:31 I made a video about this scene a few years ago. The parts you are a bit uncertain about (mmbi... shara, (inaudible) sherkuk) are actually "Nubin sherkuk" ("I smell your blood") in both cases. It's from the text The Treason of Isengard. There's a ton more specifically tied to the Ring. You can hear it whisper "Zigur" when it shrinks in Isildur's hand and the moment where Frodo and Gandalf get startled by the noise it makes.
@luca_ng Ай бұрын
What does "zigur" mean
@monoverantus Ай бұрын
@@luca_ng"Sauron", as the video points out at 3:45
@LordSiravant Ай бұрын
@@luca_ng It means "sorcerer", actually, but Zigur is the name many of Sauron's human followers use for him, as most of his servants are not allowed to call him Sauron.
@luca_ng Ай бұрын
@@monoverantus thanks, I hadn't watched that far at the time
@Kynokefalos Ай бұрын
@@luca_ng Zigûr is a word in adûnaic, the language of Númenor, that was his name when he was the High Priest of Melkor in Númenor.
@cartoonraccoon2078 Ай бұрын
2:29 So we all thought Gandalf was doing some actual wizard stuff for once and "muttering the countercurse" ala Prof. Snape. But no, he was singing the creepiest duet since Natalie Cole.
@psSubstratum 20 күн бұрын
I wondered about that too. it really doesnt make any sense and it kinda disappoints me
Ай бұрын
Always wondered what Sauron says during the council in Rivendell. His laugh is unique. Thank you very much.
@jameshoward3783 Ай бұрын
My interpretation from the books has lead me to believe the Orcs and Uruk-hai who came from the Orthanc who captured Merry and Pippin were charged by Saruman to bring the ring to him, and not to Dol Guldu so that he could take the power from Sauron, and because of that I think “Wizard” may be the correct word in black-speech during The Two Towers. I also think Gandalf eludes to the corruption that the ring holds and his fear of it’s power and influence to even Wizards during the “Don’t tempt me Frodo” scene early in The Fellowship of the Ring. I mean he does wield Narya one of the 3 rings of the Elves Also this is a wonderfully done video and I love your work.
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
Very good points! And thank you, glad you enjoyed it :)
@annafdd Ай бұрын
Sauron was no longer in Dol Guldur by the time of The Two Towers, he was back in Barad-dûr. But indeed, zigûr means wizard, and it’s not Black Speech, it’s Adunaic, the language of Numenor.
@marquecz Ай бұрын
I love how Christopher Lee is put into the video in the talking-head format as an expert on Tolkien (which he was).
@tremaynerichards8619 Ай бұрын
Awesome video man! Really interesting!
@ajm2872 Ай бұрын
Video is over at 6:45, guys 👍🏻
@MJPCK136 Ай бұрын
The orcs marching on Minas Tirith still scares the crap out of me
@karrde5566 Ай бұрын
i thought they were saying "Burn em bash em" not "Durbgu dashu" huh
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
Uruk-Hai be like “Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew” 🗣️
@jmc.spectre 6 күн бұрын
No shit as an asian kid I thought they said burnem mashem too 😢
@fragacorderorodrigo612 Ай бұрын
Fan of you with BU, and now more with the content of middle earth Good job elliot
@user-ow2bs7ge1h 12 күн бұрын
Thats a pretty good 6 mins 47 sec video. Loved the translations
@semihmasat Ай бұрын
great video from start to end.
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
Thank you!
@sterben4106 Ай бұрын
How he can speak black speech but can’t say penguin.
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
Hahah love this comment 😂
@SolariusScorch Ай бұрын
Black Speech is supposedly easy to learn. :)
@raffaelm988 Ай бұрын
You had me at the thumbnail :)
@IcyWun Ай бұрын
Big respect to Alan Howard, he nailed it
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
He did indeed!
@ghosthound17 29 күн бұрын
Sir Christopher Lee speaking in black speech so effortlessly was awesome.
@antonakesson 20 күн бұрын
A true nerd for everyone to love XD
@smoothbrush4722 Ай бұрын
Nice video i am interested in what the orcs say chant when they attack the city of dale in the hobbit you can clearly hear them chant something and then you can hear katmunda from the goblins on top catapults.
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
I just went back and listened and I'm assuming you mean right after Azog says "attack the city"? In that case it's honestly really hard to hear, there's definitely a lone orc screaming "Katmuda" but the actual chant sounds like "HORAH" or something and I have no idea what that means haha, maybe someone more read up on black speech can figure it out!
@smoothbrush4722 Ай бұрын
@@MiddleEarthUpdates exactly! You can hear them clearly chant sounds like horrah yes maybe one expert can help us
@MerryMohProductions Ай бұрын
There’s also Shadow of Mordor/War
@BlankRegie Ай бұрын
Don't forget the scene in The Two Towers, when the soldiers of Rhun are approaching the black gate and are greeted in what is surely black speech.
@MiddleEarthUpdates Ай бұрын
I looked a lot at that scene but couldn't find any clear words/translations at all in it unfortunately. Some people claimed they said "Katmuda" there too but it was so vague that I decided to skip the scene
@BlankRegie 29 күн бұрын
@@MiddleEarthUpdates It would be ironic if they said that, given the Rhuns were allies. The last word shouted is Mordor, so the jist seems to be-"Welcome friends/comrades to Mordor!" That is one of my favorite scenes, in both book and movie.
@wolowizard4441 Ай бұрын
One of my favourite bits of speech is when Aragorn faces Sauron through the Palantir and Sauron recites the elven poem and after he finishes he talks in black speech (can’t remember what he says) but when he’s speaking the poem in elvish it sounds softer and when he goes to black speech it’s so much harsher
@frederickdogal1807 Ай бұрын
Rings of Power doesn't exist, it's a shame really.
@fionarodgers4806 Ай бұрын
It’s just the most expensive fanfiction ever.
@Nessasio Ай бұрын
What are you still crying about it then?
@bargainbrandmilk9858 Ай бұрын
@@Nessasiobro isn't crying
@FallahPladasque Ай бұрын
It doesn’t count
@frederickdogal1807 Ай бұрын
@@brandonmunsen6035 oh wow, a very down to earth guy, would you look at that? Thank you, you very humble and totally not slow person.
@Guillermoherpal Ай бұрын
Viejo ¡esto está increíble!, tengo un tatuaje del ojo en mi espalda y me falta ponerle la inscripción alrededor y estoy muy contento de haber encontrado este canal ;)
@steyn1775 Ай бұрын
0:19 ah c'mon Why you did you had to remind us that that "show" exist I was living perfectly fine until you brought up...that "show"
@In10tionL Ай бұрын
Why did you say that name? You promised me you would never say that name!
@juliocapeles8993 Ай бұрын
There was this one Orc in one of the movies that I swear was trying to get signed because it sounded majestic
@psSubstratum 20 күн бұрын
huh?
@jmc.spectre 9 күн бұрын
Wow that Sauron laugh... I can't describe its grimace enough.
@jarrodkober 4 күн бұрын
The Nampat thing is really interesting when you think of real languages. In Spanish there are different words for what KIND of ☠️ it is: muerte=dead/death--morir=to die--matar=kill/(to)kill The root is the Latin word Mort(death) English also uses it and many other Latin words ex: Mortal/immortal/mortuary So I love writers that invent languages for their worlds, it's earlier in the LOTR timeline etc so super interesting to think about the root words/how they evolve later
@cbbartman1360 Ай бұрын
Only wish we could get more of the haradrim chants now 😩
@kevinhardin3494 Ай бұрын
RoP may have been a disappointment but one of my favorite black speech scenes happens when the orcs finally break into the tavern they are held up in. I think the commander says something’s along the line of “it’s not here, kill them all” and the orcs start laying waste. About the only memorable scene from that show for me.
@blueshit199 Ай бұрын
nampat could have evolved into meaning "death" from "take back (ones) life" or something like that
@theeverydayillusion7790 28 күн бұрын
Christopher Lee the GOAT. Rest easy. You are not forgotten
@mattm4306 Ай бұрын
Maybe the "inaudible" language Sauron was speaking mentioned Nine rings to the race of Men. Idk
@RicWalker Ай бұрын
"Nampat! Udun!" do the Orks chant in the last clip you showed. "Take back! Udun" makes way more sense. after all the area around the village they fought over, is Udun valley.
@opticmatrixx Ай бұрын
If you listen close, Azog and Sauron use different words for war/army.. even Tolkien wrote that only orc captains speak the black speech because they answer to Sauron's servants.
@SolariusScorch Ай бұрын
7:25: Why not both? If the word initially meant "take back", then it could be used to describe the process of Mandos taking souls of the dead back to his halls; ergo, dying. It's not a huge leap of reason to assume that at some point this word started being associated more specifically with being taken to the land of the dead, finally taking over as the general term for "death". I know, it's a bit stretched, but not impossible.
@annafdd Ай бұрын
Benedict Cumberbatch had the pale skin, dark hair and grey eyes of the Noldor. I had never noticed. Shoots to the top of my list of dream cast for Fëanor.
@thatoneguy9610 Ай бұрын
Interesting that the word “sharku” can mean old or old man, considering saruman had a name which was Sharku, something the hobbits mistook for sharky
@abdullahsultan9517 Ай бұрын
There's a scene in rotk before the rohirrim arrives and the camera showing us the orcs invading minas tirith before dawn precisely , there was a clearly loud , like yelling, black speech that i always wanted to know its meaning.
@Kynokefalos Ай бұрын
Benedict was very creepy in the Hobbits movies, very final boss of Dol Guldur, but the original voice of the first movies was excellent, he sounds like a distant and ancient god, full of resentment and hatred, always mockering you. You can feel the contempt when he calls Gandalf old Man
@bendrake4570 24 күн бұрын
Also, Benedikt Cumberbatch talked black speach backwarts. In post they rewersed it to make it sound even more unearthly
@5pctd2br98 Ай бұрын
What about Summoning's song "Mirdautas Vras"? Does anyone know where that Black Speech came from, or how accurate it is?
@Baldricksturnip Ай бұрын
I was shocked Rings of power made even this little bit of effort towards the actual lotr lore.
@roberdelss Ай бұрын
"Katmuda!" Is gonna be my warcry.
@GameZedd01 27 күн бұрын
3:00 to 3:04 is such a hard af image. Like a rap album cover Can anyone link me the full hd version of that image?
@twirajuda Ай бұрын
The LOTR trilogy should be rereleased with subtitles for the black speech. It would give it more context and make the films more frightening
@bryanmatthews2370 Ай бұрын
Think we'll get some black speech in war of the rohirrim?
@skybluesbolognese58 22 күн бұрын
We are invading Gondor with this one 🗣️💥💥🗣️"KATMUDA!!!!"
@DretFosria 11 күн бұрын
Honestly, I hear whatever is written in the subtitles.
@Davo_from_the_Pub 27 күн бұрын
Why didn't Alan Howard return to voice Sauron in The Hobbit? I assume health reasons?
@GardenArcher7625 Ай бұрын
The Summoning -> song -> mirdautas vras .... Thank me later..
@psSubstratum 20 күн бұрын
it just doesnt make any sense to me why Gandalf would recite the speech from the one ring when he‘s trying to back off the energy of Sauron at the council. anyone willing to explain? I always thought he would drive him away in his own words like „you have no power here, get away“ but in Sauron‘s language
@Discellaneous 27 күн бұрын
It would have been terrifying if the orcs spoke black speech when the uruks had Merry and Pippin
@aaronsmall1394 Ай бұрын
Yo saurons complete verse is so much darker
@KING-tz6lo Ай бұрын
They first chant hit 😂
@fifefafq Ай бұрын
GROND!GROND!GROND!GROND!
@vortega472 Ай бұрын
You know what would be cool - a revised version of the song: Where There's a Whip (There's a Way) from the Rankin/Bass Lord of the Rings-Return of the King movie. I know, I know, but it had some good parts - and that was one of them.
@codiserville593 Ай бұрын
Oh buddy, now you're talking We don't wanna go to war today!
@nnnn3808 Ай бұрын
But is the Orc chanting in LOTR trilogy what Tolkien actually wrote or is it the Neo Black Speech as you say?
@annafdd Ай бұрын
It’s neo Black Speech.
@GodKingReiss 23 күн бұрын
It's almost all Neo Black Speech. The bits of Black Speech that appear in LOTR itself are few and far between. Basically just the Ring verse, Orc names, and a handful of words and small phrases.
@user-lj1qy6nw8s Ай бұрын
Wouldn't it be Sauron
@dogmeat7582 18 күн бұрын
Burzum means darkness in black speech? I like that band name even more now.
@theloner6063 3 күн бұрын
This is huh...wow
@B1g5t1nk 29 күн бұрын
1:26 Count Dooku???
@nanab256 Ай бұрын
Nampat - death; Katmuda - death to men makes sense xd
@oscarg4107 Ай бұрын
Im a little drunk rn. I got scared seeing count dooku speak tounges
@StailH 21 күн бұрын
May the orcs be with you? :)) why? and what does this have to do with star wars?
@esmewvimes2901 7 күн бұрын
By the time I was 12 I'd discovered CS Lewis and Tolkien and decided I wanted to be a philologist. How common a goal is this among 12 yo girls?
@sir_cahstic3637 Ай бұрын
It’s suppose to be an ugly language? 😅
@90skidwithaguitar Ай бұрын
I know, right?
@hnevko 23 күн бұрын
So this is how you see us, East-europeans and Russians?
@fionask6140 16 күн бұрын
dude why do you treat ROP as something related to Tolkien… 😩
@YOUPIMatin123 Ай бұрын
Rings of what now
@tatilla933 Ай бұрын
I stopped in Rings of Power part.. it is a fan fiction which never exist in canon story.
@NexusBreeze99 Ай бұрын
Don’t cover the abortion that is Rings of Power.
@mugi2595 Ай бұрын
I always thought the orcs at Pelennor Fields sounded like 'überraschung' (surprise in German)
@RazSofer-xh3qs Ай бұрын
When a language is so evil, even the creator of it feels disgusted from it.
@captainhero4116 Ай бұрын
Me: hey my mom said that I may invite you to my birthday party so you c- The autistic kid: 5:55
@Allen667sjja Ай бұрын
Black speech is just the cockney accent change my mind lol
@MafiaKingfishNOLA Ай бұрын
I always thought the "Black Speech" was how people in the hood talked.
@pingpong5877 24 күн бұрын
Never talk and sound Black. 💀
@faunbudweis Ай бұрын
That is the new ruzzian anthem, isnt it?
@orale_ 27 күн бұрын
The black speech 😂
@leandrogoethals6599 Ай бұрын
And then when they talk to men it's in bri'sh
@goshoharizamov Ай бұрын
Ring of power is pure shit
@dv4975 Ай бұрын
Please don’t support ROP … :(
@spenzur Ай бұрын
Grow up.
@ferro1398 Ай бұрын
@@spenzur not the amazon bootlicker 😢
@spenzur Ай бұрын
@@ferro1398 Not the mouthbreading incel 😥
@karrde5566 Ай бұрын
@@spenzur your the child in this comment thread.
@spenzur Ай бұрын
@@karrde5566 Because I tell someone who is whining about people supporting a television show to grow up? Try harder!
@bigbaba1111 Ай бұрын
Christopher Lee had the perfect voice for the language of Mordor. RIP giant. Also: Rings of power is not LOTR. It's some woke POS.
@annafdd Ай бұрын
I am not fond of RoP but the showrunners know their lore. They don’t have a clue about how to run a show but they do know their lore.
@DashhunterLP 26 күн бұрын
Woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke woke 🤖
@bigbaba1111 26 күн бұрын
@@annafdd sure. Guyladriel as a fighter in armour.😅 Also: middle earth looks like downtown San Francisco.
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