Khuzdul - The Secret Language of the Dwarves 

Not to mention our heavy emphasis for learning Hebrew. No matter where the Jewish people migrated to, we would always retain this shared language, thus creating a unified culture.

@@lawrencetalbot8346 May your beards grow ever longer!

@ancestralcult7051 And that the city of the dwarves was linked to Mt. Moria, which Mount Moriah is the location of the ancient Jewish Temple and center of the Jewish religion and land in Jerusalem.

not to mention there intense devotion to their creator and keeping ancient knowledge from him, as well as holy mountains which appear a lot in both hebrew text and the dwarven tradition, as well as awesome beards, and an early form of writing preserved unusually long

not to mention their lust for gold

I’d imagine that they had some trade once the Numenorians started founding settlements on the Middle Earth coastlines and expanded their trade networks. They seem to have had relationships with a lot of other peoples throughout the Second Age (Lindon and Eressea early on, then the Middle Men and Easterlings later) so it’s more than likely that dwarves took part in the trade somewhere in there

The Khuzdul influence on Adunaic (the language of the Numenoreans) mostly came from long before Numenor was founded, in the days before the ancestors of the Edain had even reached Beleriand. Basically pre-historic human language developed through early contact with dwarves before recorded history, and this ancestral language of men eventually developed into the ones we know later like Westron.

I wrote this comment before finishing the video and later realized the video actually was saying the same things that I was, so u probably already knew that bit of history and were instead specifically asking about the later contacts between the cultures lol my bad!

Ah, I always knew Christopher Lee was a fake Tolkien fan! Unlike me...who never mispronounces anything...ever.

@@DarthGandalfYT exactly! For shame

Ah, yes, the "disguised guy trying too hard to fit in, but because it is harmless, people only find him weird" type of behaviour...

😂😂😂. By the way, the pasta is called _linguine_ , which literally means "little tongues" in Italian, due to their particular shape.

Italian dialects? That must've been a long conversation.

Can you confirm whether the residents are truly human? Seen any odd behaviour?

@@DarthGandalfYT LOL

@@DarthGandalfYT As far as I can tell they're indeed human. Nothing odd or suspicious thus far.

​@@rileywilliams9799 of course they are normal: they eat food, drink liquids, and breathe like any normal Human!

My guess is it was a way to remind goblins, cave trolls and other balrogs that this was for the Dwarves alone

Or the capital of Mexico "Mexico City".

@@DarthGandalfYT or a random Island" Island of Man"

Well, the capital of Brazil IS Brasília, so, yeah... Better than have the state and the capitol of said state share the same name, which in Brazil there is TWO of those...

That's known as "Neo-Khuzdul", and it was invented for the films. I believe some was also invented for the Hobbit. A lot of Elvish in the films is also invented simply because the languages weren't fleshed out enough to be able to properly converse.

Fascinating, thank you! Didn't know they went that deep for the films.

That's exactly what I thought. Additionally the Sindar weren't very friendly with dwarves and as dwarves attribute their language to their maker, it takes on a very ceremonial and religious role. For sure they aren't gonna reveal it to the public. But men first came, they were children and I don't think very judgmental or threatening. So dwarves helped them grow On a somewhat sarcastic point, I think the dwarves liked that men had beard like them and felt more akin to them. We know that dwarves take pride in their beards

About the video. I think dwarves safeguard their language more jealously as time goes on. They attributed it to Aule and as their distance in time grew they became more and more protective of it. I can see them teaching men (another bearded creature like themselves) as I think they felt more akin to them than the Eldar. Sindar didn't particularly like the Naugrim, so it makes sense that they don't teach it to them.

That's an interesting theory. I just looked up a few Valarin words, and some of them definitely look like they could be related to Khuzdul; Tulukhastāz in particular.

@@DarthGandalfYT Thank you for responding. It would make sense since Aule taught the Dwaves to speak, technically the first spoken language ever. Melkor and his minions (before Orcs) would've spoken (telepathy) Valarin amongst themselves... remember that the Valar, Maiar and other beings (pre Children of Iluvatar) would've not needed a spoken language

The Ents were not taught language by Yavanna, they were taught to speak by the first Elves

Or the other, a dictionary. More secrets like codes of movement too maybe?

What it means anyway issit real cos "Khuzdul" means "I am an Idiot" maybe, like a slang?

I know right? Dwarves are proud, loyal, strong, courageous, amazing craftsmen and builders, they are my favorite race in fantasy.