<p>I am not an expert in Black Speech, so I'm going to follow the information from the blackspeech.ru website.</p>
<p>The basic word order of Black Speech is <em>SVO</em> (subject-verb-object), as in English, so the subject is <em>Sauron</em>, the verb is <em>watch</em>, and there is no object. Adverbs (<em>always</em>) are to be placed after the words they modify, so we end up with</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sauron watches/is watching always</p>
</blockquote>
<p>as the basic starting point. <em>Sauron</em> is straight forward,as there are no cases. With <em>watch</em> I would actually choose the translation <em>tud-</em>, as it has the sense of <em>guard</em>, which seems more appropriate here; in the third person singular this would be <em>tudat</em>. The adverb suffix is <em>-arz</em>, which gives us <em>ûkilarz</em>. So our sentence would be</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Shakhbûrz tudat ûkilarz</p>
</blockquote>
<p>With the Tengwar transcriber on the same site it would be rendered as</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/dLwGr.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/dLwGr.png" alt="Tengwar rendering" /></a></p>
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<p>UPDATE: In case you want to say &quot;Eye of Sauron&quot;, that would be the possessive (&quot;eye Sauron-of&quot;):</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Hont Shakhbûrz-ob tudat ûkilarz</p>
</blockquote>
<p>and</p>
<p><a href="https://i.sstatic.net/SOFa1.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/SOFa1.png" alt="The Eye of Sauron is always watching (in Tengwar)" /></a></p>
<p>There are no articles, so it's either <em>The Eye of Sauron</em> or <em>Eye of Sauron</em> — there is no distinction in Black Speech.</p>

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<p>How to translate to Black Speech phrase &quot;Eye of the Sauron is always watching&quot;? or more simply: &quot;Sauron is always watching&quot;, or even more simply &quot;Sauron is watching&quot;.</p>
<p>and how to write it in tengwar.</p>
<p>As I try to translate words: eye - hont, Sauron - Shakhbûrz. always - ûkil. watch - hon- , gon-.</p>
<p>I used Black Speech online translator: <a href="http://www.blackspeech.ru/los/index.php?page=5" rel="noreferrer">http://www.blackspeech.ru/los/index.php?page=5</a></p>
<p>But I doubt how to make full sentence from it. And How to write it.</p>

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How to translate to Black Speech this sentence "Eye of the Sauron is always watching"?
# How to translate to Black Speech this sentence "Eye of the Sauron is always watching"?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-05-20)

How to translate to Black Speech phrase "Eye of the Sauron is always watching"? or more simply: "Sauron is always watching", or even more simply "Sauron is watching".

and how to write it in tengwar.

As I try to translate words: eye - hont, Sauron - Shakhbûrz. always - ûkil. watch - hon- , gon-.

I used Black Speech online translator: <http://www.blackspeech.ru/los/index.php?page=5>

But I doubt how to make full sentence from it. And How to write it.

**Tags:** translation, tolkien-black-speech

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-05-20. Score: 9 | Accepted answer

I am not an expert in Black Speech, so I'm going to follow the information from the blackspeech.ru website.

The basic word order of Black Speech is *SVO* (subject-verb-object), as in English, so the subject is *Sauron*, the verb is *watch*, and there is no object. Adverbs (*always*) are to be placed after the words they modify, so we end up with

> Sauron watches/is watching always

as the basic starting point. *Sauron* is straight forward,as there are no cases. With *watch* I would actually choose the translation *tud-*, as it has the sense of *guard*, which seems more appropriate here; in the third person singular this would be *tudat*. The adverb suffix is *-arz*, which gives us *ûkilarz*. So our sentence would be

> Shakhbûrz tudat ûkilarz

With the Tengwar transcriber on the same site it would be rendered as

[![Tengwar rendering](https://i.sstatic.net/dLwGr.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/dLwGr.png)

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UPDATE: In case you want to say "Eye of Sauron", that would be the possessive ("eye Sauron-of"):

> Hont Shakhbûrz-ob tudat ûkilarz

and

[![The Eye of Sauron is always watching (in Tengwar)](https://i.sstatic.net/SOFa1.png)](https://i.sstatic.net/SOFa1.png)

There are no articles, so it's either *The Eye of Sauron* or *Eye of Sauron* — there is no distinction in Black Speech.


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