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