If you are interested in Khuzdul (the dwarves’ language), check out this page:įor the movie, they basically made stuff up. The endurance of the dwarves is, after all, legendary. Underhill”, but much more successfully sustained. “Gimli” was merely his outer name that he used when he was around non-dwarves, or basically, while travelling. Gimli’s name was not, of course, really Gimli. Some examples of these would be “Khazad-dum” (meaning Dwarrowdelf, or dwarf-delving) and “Barak Khazad, kazad ai-menu”, which of course means “axes of the dwarves, the dwarves are upon you!”Įven their names and writings are not in their own language. Only certain “public” terms passed into the general knowledge of other peoples. The Dwarves kept their language a carefully guarded secret.
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