--- In norse_course@yahoogroups.com, Plastikdol@... wrote:

> Here's something interesting: I was just watching Lord of the

Rings:

> The Fellowship of the Ring and there's a part when they're in a

cave reading a

> dwarvish book. I only caught a glimpse of it, but it appears to me

that the

> book was written in the Elder Futhark. I know Tolkien had studied

Old Norse and

> Old English, so this does seam feasible. Did anybody else notice

it?

>
> Reanna

Sorry for not replying sooner.
The language in the dwarvish book is the invented language Khuzdul
spoken by Tolkien's dwarves. I don't remember what the dwarvish
runes are but the elvish ones are called the Tengwar.