Tanaqui
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29 Jun 05 1:08 AM
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Hi Elemmire
I think the word you want is
tark, which is explained in this passage from Appendix F:
So it was that in the Third Age Orcs used for communication between breed and breed the Westron tongue; and many indeed of the older tribes, such as those that still lingered in the North and in the Misty Mountains had long used the Westron as their native language, though in such a fashion as to make it hardly less unlovely than Orkish. In this jargon tark, ‘man of Gondor’ was a debased form of tarkil, a Quenya word used in Westron for one of Númenorean descent. See [The Return of the King, LoTR Book 6, Ch 1, The Tower of Cirith Ungol]
By the way, Tolkien always seems to call them Gondorians and not Gondorrim. (Don't ask me why, it's one of JRRT's strange quirks.)
HTH
Cheers, LIz
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