Khuzdul is the name given to the dwarven language created by Tolkien, most of what is known about it coming directly from his published books, such as The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings series.
Race of Dwarves – Lord of the Rings Online These next links give brief descriptions of dwarves as they appear in some of the current MMORPGs, allowing a better look at how similar and different they are in comparison.
Understanding some basic concepts about mythical dwarves are what these first links help with. Yet, language differences aside, dwarves across all current MMORPGs (and pretty much across all their lore) do share a number of physical and mental similarities. Khazalid, the speech of Warhammer dwarves, is specifically crafted to include very few words of human or Elvish. In Lord of the Rings Online, for example, Tolkien’s dwarvish (known as khuzdul) is naturally present, but the dwarves in World of Warcraft speak their native tongue based more from real life Scottish and Germanic languages. So too is much of the dwarvish found in MMORPGs today taken from Tolkien, but not all. However, after delving through the darkest pits of the Internet, I have found plenty quality dwarven references to provide roleplayers with.Īs in The Languages of RP – Elvish, much of the dwarven language found online is based on the works of J.R.R. Even though dwarves have probably been around just as long as elves in terms of fantasy, their language has not had the same amount of attention paid to it. The first part of this series, The Languages of RP – Elvish, is more extensive than this article. In this second part of The Languages of RP, I’ll be sharing some helpful links regarding the dwarvish language. As roleplayers, bringing our online versions of living to life are of prime importance, and speaking in game in the language of our characters is one of the best ways we can do this. Different versions of life are exactly what we have in MMORPGs.
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