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Wait a minute, isn’t black speech the language of the Nazgul? The ring wraiths? The 9 mortal men doomed to die?

I’m fine with being called Snaga-ishi. I found it amusing. But thanks Huinesoron!

The reason it's tricky is that it has only a handful of words. This site lists all of them: about 30, with at least three being compounds of the others. So a) every name created from them will be horrible, and b) there's a lot of repetition.

Though really, I ought to be taking into account the handful of Orcish names attested in the Third Age. Grishnákh, Uglúk, Shagrat, Gorbag, Lagduf, Muzgash, Mauhúr, Lugdush, Radbug, Ufthak... if nothing else, they give us a feel for what these names should sound like. (Also, Gorbag appears to contain the element bag, 'cess'; Muzgash may use a debased form of ghâsh, 'fire'; Uglúk could end in -ûk, 'all'; and Lugdush seems to have lug, 'tower'. So they're not entirely untranslatable...!)

hS

In Elvish, obviously. ^_~

Quenya: Several words for 'beautiful', but my favourite is Vanima. You could also have Vanya, Linda, Calwa, or Vanessë ('beauty')... most of which are or come strikingly close to real names.

Sindarin: unless you're talking specifically about hair, the Sindarin words for 'beautiful' are bain and dail. Given that Bain is a male name in Lake-Town, I think I'd add a female suffix and give you Dailwen.

Adunaic: The word Nimîr is the word for elves, meaning 'the Beautiful'. We can add the adjective prefix an- to get the name Animir.

Valarin: What other possibility is there than Amanaišal, 'Unmarred'?

Black Speech: The Black Speech is notably a language without beauty, and no doubt they would be offended by it; I think you can only be Dug-Búbhosh, the Great Filth.

hS

'We sing' would be Canimus, 'let us sing' would be Canāmus and 'we are singing' would be Sumus Canentibus. One of these is not like the others.

"I imagine you end up as Issi. Which looks like it might be an archaic plural of the third-person pronoun (which is gender-neutral)."

This is so many levels of perfect I can't even begin to describe. Thank you!

Quenya: Tintóretecë. 'D' is not known as a first letter in any Quenya word, so I've substituted T (I do that myself when I need to). 'Tintore' is both TTR, and 'Heart-kindler', which is a decent word for doctor. 'Tece' is actually a verbal form of 'to write', so the whole comes out as something like '[D]TR who writes'.

Sindarin: It took a bit of wrangling, but I can give you Dîrathaegerthas, 'Man of healing and letters'. Okay, the T is a Th, but it's close enough. ^_^ (A shorter version is 'Dîrathaegirth', but I figured that final syllable was a bit embarassing in English.)

Adunaic: Adûnitîrbêth is 'west-kindler of words'. From a Numenorean perspective, the West is the land of health and immortality.

At this point I think I shall abandon the challenge; my best Valarin effort was about 14 syllables. So instead:

Valarin: Amanaišalmâchan, 'Unmarred Law'. Both health and song (the Valarin form of literature) are symptoms of the unmarred world.

Black Speech: Wait, I accept the challenge again! Durbaturuk means 'to rule the Orcs'; keeping them alive and telling them what to do sounds like a good route to that!

For bonus points: except for Sindarin, all of these can also be using 'doctor' to mean 'professor'. ^_^

hS

... which is pretty appropriate, considering. Thanks!

As for your good self:

Quenya: Ára Eärendil would be the easy translation, but who wants that guy's name in theirs? There is actually another Quenya name for Venus, which gives us Áratancol - 'Dawn of the Signifier'.

(Of course, if 'Morningstar' means 'Lucifer', you'd be Áramelkórë. But that's really not a name you'd want to say in public.)

Sindarin: A literal translation would be Minuial Aerendil, but that's way too long. I would suggest instead Gil-Vinuial, 'star of the twilight at dawn'. ('Vinuial' is the same word as 'Minuial'; it just mutates.)

Adunaic: Gimli-azûlada is not a dwarf, but is 'the Eastward Star'. Quite why Tolkien decided to use a dwarf's name for 'star' is beyond me.

Valarin: Amanaišalaþâraigas is the 'Unmarred Sun', which is a very religious concept in (some versions of) the Legendarium. As a metaphor for dawn, I think it fits.

Black Speech: Skai! Sun, stars, dawn - it's all just fire, so Ghâshulûk, 'burn them all' you shall be.

hS

Jay Zirqoyithelisa ('bird-of-prey is-blue')

Acacia Feshithmihoon ('tree of thorns')

Makes-Things Movelak ('creator by hand')

Mysterious Somebody Atoqemmemma ('one is-mysterious')

Elcalion Silakshiekrahsani

Huinesoron Kolverzanisshi

Neshomeh Oakah (literally 'worth'/'mettle')

Phobos Athrokhar

Scapegrace Ifadozgaki ('little outlaw')

Wobbles Athfilkazari (I had to construct this, it literally means 'movements like a caterpillar'!)

Notary Vojassokhosoroon ('person of the law')

Cassie Vojozzirvena (literally 'person is-fiery')

SMF Zheana ('beautiful')

doctorlit Koalak Timvirofi ('Healer of great books')

Aurora Morningstar Athyolarshekhoon Shierakaenoon ('birth-of-sun star-of-the-morning')

Zingenmir Hoyalaki ('we sing')

Snowblaze Vorsahesi ('fire of the snow')

SunAndMoon Shekhmajalan

Iximaz Athastokhdeveshizar ('nonsense') or, Ishimaz for a sound-equivalent.

SomeRandomPersonAccount Vojesinasa 'person who changes'

Your name translates as Sōletlūna, literally 'sun and moon'. Nice and simple.

Hmmm... I can still see. I did not expect myself to be an angel, more of a question mark though. I didn’t know that random people are literally slaves in Mordor, and I did not finish the first book( I stopped reading at the mushroom farm).

Also is it just me or do I sense a coincidence with the slave part?

Your name after all is constructed from two of the four 'genders' of High Valyrian (lunar, solar, aquatic and terrestrial).

You are Vēzoshūrā!

You are Perzysōno, Fire of the Snow!

I dub thee Giēñatys Bardillazmoti, 'Healer of Great Writings'

Elcalion

Because Gevie means 'beautiful'.

Elcalion

Interestingly your name in High Valyrian has the 'dawn' and 'morning' elements reversed: Ñāqesonqēlo is literally 'morning of the dawn-star'. Onqēlos (lit. 'dawn-star') is given as the HV version of 'Morning Star' so I used the alternate word Ñāqes for 'morning'.

Elcalion

You would be (allowing for some elision of syllables) Jehikissaros, 'shining person'. I smooshed jehikire (shining) + issaros (person/being) cause 'Jehikireissaros' sounds too syllable-heavy.

Elcalion

Scapegrace would be Dorȳbarysitsos, literally 'little disobedience'

Wobbles would be Elēnna, plural form of Elēnnon, 'movement back and forth'

Notary would be Vēttirurnekio, literally 'law observer'

Elcalion Cano'haido'shas

"The wood of the Arban page-tree is rather difficult to obtain. The tree itself does not provide many suitable pieces of wood because it was engineered to support large leaves. To compensate for this, a larger proportion than usual of page-trees is capable of producing wand-wood, possibly due to the intent behind their creation. The largest problem, however, is that these trees are grown in concents, where unexpected tree trimming, if noticed, would cause considerable alarm and potentially breach multiversal security.

"With the help of a former resident, however, I was able to take suitable wood from a pile of trimmings at Savant Rambraf's in the 2600s. The wands crafted from this wood appear to favor academics and others who want to push the boundaries of magical theory and practice (in other wards, Ravenclaws and Unspeakables). These wands are particularly suited to experimental spellcasting and, unsurprisingly, spells for creating records. One flaw in these wands is that they can be inconsistent at times - the power, or, in rare cases, effect, of a spell will occasionally vary for unclear reasons. " - Maybe future!Henry & Peregrin, who knows?

Here's some Tau names as well. I'll only do the names as personal names, as trying to ascertain rank and caste would just be more trouble than it's worth:-

Jay: Anuk'al'xux'la (Small blue bird)

Acacia: Eio'ko'io'co'r'jida (Tree of short spears)

Makes-Things: T'so'ta'cha (Of artful mind and purpose)

Mysterious Somebody: Da'j'kaara'noh (Dark mirror mystery)

Elcalion: Cano'haido'shas (Yearning for the burnished star)

Neshomeh: Ran'la (Person of the soul)

Phobos: Bur'xan'jhi'ran (Divine being of broken spirit)

If anyone wants to do ones for Scapegrace, Wobbles, the Notary, &c, they're more than welcome to =]

Ixīmas seems to be the closest you can get phonologically in Latin; the meaning is apparently 'man of a hen harrier', which seems rather odd. If, on the other hand, I translate 'nonsense', you would be Nonsīgnificātiō, 'meaningless'.

I think the closest I can get is persōna, 'mask, character', which gives Cuiusdam Fortuītī Hominis Persōna 'the character of some random person'.

Also, reversing the word order, but omitting the accentuation that would make "singen wir?" a question, turns it into a colloquial suggestion (short for "lasst uns singen").

So that’s how I read your name: "Let’s sing".

HG