Keeping it classy , I like it ! Awesome rifle ya got there ! <| sep |> I completely do mean that . And don ' t call me Shirley . <| sep |> But isn ' t the general idea that they ' re not actually speaking English at all in Middle Earth , and that it ' s just translated for our own sake ? I believe they would be speaking Westron at that point , so it could just be that they translated their equivalent of nervous system which could honestly be something quite basic , into something that we would understand better . It ' s like the use of the word Looks like meat ' s back on the menu . Of course an Orc doesn ' t know what a menu is , it ' s just translated that way so we know the general idea he ' s trying to convey . That ' s the way I always looked at it , anyways .