Both Uses of
intelligible
in
The Two Towers
- To Pippin's surprise he found that much of the talk was intelligible many of the Orcs were using ordinary language.†
Chpt 3.3intelligible = capable of being understood
- As soon as the whole company was assembled, standing in a wide circle round Treebeard, a curious and unintelligible conversation began.†
Chpt 3.4 *unintelligible = not capable of being understoodstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unintelligible means not and reverses the meaning of intelligible. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.