![]() ![]() Even in-universe, little is known of Khuzdul because the Dwarves kept it secret. While some Khuzdul names appeared in early versions of The Silmarillion, a very limited vocabulary was previously known. The work done by Free Range Games and Salo is particularly exciting because of how little we've read or heard of Khuzdul from the books, films, and TV shows. Let's invent that creature and get it into the game.” He started by building the language and then thinking about, 'who are the people that have this language?' Then every delivery that came back from the linguist became, 'how can we use this?' This word sounds like it could be a creature that maybe doesn't exist anymore. “But as we started to get the first deliveries back from the linguist, and as I started to dig deeper into Tolkien's life, he did what we inadvertently did. So we were like, ‘it’d just be neat if we could say some Dwarven phrases.’ And in the act of making it, it became more important than just that cool idea at the beginning. “We went out to find somebody that could help us write it. “There are some people on the internet that have built their own versions of the language and we were like, ‘oh, maybe we could use these.’ And then we realised they weren't based as authentically on Tolkien's work as we wanted. Some are sung completely in the dwarven language.Īccording to Dumont, the inclusion of the Dwarven language started out as “just a fun idea”, but quickly snowballed. Some songs were written by Tolkien himself. Sometimes your dwarf will have ‘inspiration’ and burst into song, a buff that may, for example, lighten the burden of mining. ![]() Khuzdul extends to Return to Moria’s eye-catching singing mechanic. ![]()
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