Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!

Gnomish

ling

noun. small snake

A word for a “small snake” in the Gnomish Lexicon of the 1910s, along a longer form G. lingos “snake” (GL/54), clearly a cognate of ᴱQ. lin (ling-) “snake” from the contemporaneous Qenya Lexicon (QL/54).