The Hobbit - Black Speech behind the scenes (making-of)

From the Battle of the Five Armies extended edition bonus

[shadesofjade]

Holy Shit can Benedict Cumberbach speak the dark speach of Mordor. The buried linguist in me is in awe!

[Vladimir_The_Impaler]

As a Sith Lord I wanna adopt the Black Speech of Mordor

[legioinvigilata]

We always hear jokes about strange languages sounding like curses, but only Tolkien could write a language that merely speaking it curses you and fills you with dread.

[legomaster]

Say what you will about the Hobbit trilogy, I for one am happy that we got more Black Speech, Elvish and Dwarfish. After all this time, the many re-watchs of both LotR and Hobbit, I'm still at awe with the brilliance and effort Tolkien put into creating these languages, and I'm grateful to the film makers for they transfered them into the big screen!

[mpickett]

Ya cumberbatch crushed the black speech. That was chilling just watching him read it

[co]

Cumberbach’s interpretation of Black Speech really makes you think Sauron is evil. Not “bad”. Evil.

It’s reminiscent of The Exorcist. That guttural monotone sound thats threatening and creepy.

[Mycroft]

You can tell this was one of the few moments Peter had some fun during this horrible shoot. He was able to stretch his creative muscles.

[jaimemontejano]

Imagine him playing Sauron in first and second ages....

[realriginal]

still turned out fucking epic i love the black speech

[Imonamf]

Just give him allll the awards!!!! Amazing!!!

[dante-ozrf]

The Academy award for Black speech goes to... Christopher Lee

[Migul]

On Netflix I noticed that somewhere after the 1st hobbit film, they changed the subtitle name of “black speech” to “Orc”. And I guess you could call “orc language” a synonym to black speech” but it feels like a weird, conscious choice made by someone to not call it black speech

[dimitrisnikoloulis]

Benedict speaks '' THE BLACK SPEECH '' better than Sauron .

[ObstagoonGuy]

"It's not the sort of language that lends itself to sweetness. It's like I can never quite believe anyone being romantic in speaking German.. kinda doesn't really work"
Haha, I laughed so hard😆

[rdw]

I swear he should voice act the Reapers in Mass Effect. Machines that end civilzations

[ikebeckman]

Seeing 😐 Galadriel talking like 😄 about Sauron is pretty fun

[guardianofthetoasters]

Woah I never knew sherlock was sauron and smaug at the same time. Late to the party but damn this is awesome

[cynfaelalek-walker]

I am convinced that Benedict Cumberbatch is sauron's mortal form.

[Eccthelion]

1:40 why are the words with combination letters with "hs" flipped on the paper (ahs - ash hsre - shre buganuhs - buganush) ?

[Kong_the_Alpha_Titan]

From being sauron's voice to dr.strange