Rohirric

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Rohirric is the fictional language of the horse-lords of Rohan in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium, represented in his writings primarily by Old English.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf constructed language in fiction
fictional language
appearsInMedium film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings
prose fiction
associatedCulture Rohirrim NERFINISHED
associatedTheme horses and cavalry culture
contrastWith Quenya NERFINISHED
Sindarin NERFINISHED
Westron (represented by Modern English)
creator J. R. R. Tolkien
designPrinciple names and terms modeled on Old English phonology and morphology
represented by Old English to indicate archaic Mannish speech
fictionalLanguageFamily Mannish languages of Middle-earth
hasGrammarFullyDescribed false
hasLimitedCorpus true
hasNotableNameElement -brand
-helm
-wine
Eorl NERFINISHED
Eorlingas NERFINISHED
hasNotablePhrase Forth Eorlingas
hasNotableWord Edoras NERFINISHED
Meduseld NERFINISHED
Théoden NERFINISHED
Éomer NERFINISHED
Éowyn NERFINISHED
éored
éothéod
hasWritingSystem runic script (in-universe, not systematically described)
inspiredByRealWorldLanguage Old English
literarySubstituteLanguage Old English NERFINISHED
partOf Middle-earth legendarium NERFINISHED
relatedInFictionTo Gondorian dialects
Westron NERFINISHED
representedAs archaic relative of Westron
representedBy Old English NERFINISHED
spokenBy Rohirrim NERFINISHED
horse-lords of Rohan NERFINISHED
spokenInFictionalRegion Rohan NERFINISHED
timePeriodInFiction Third Age of Middle-earth NERFINISHED
usedInWork The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED
The Lord of the Rings Appendices NERFINISHED
The Peoples of Middle-earth NERFINISHED
The Return of the King NERFINISHED
The Two Towers NERFINISHED
Unfinished Tales NERFINISHED

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Rohan language Rohirric
Éowyn language Rohirric