Re: Elder Futhark?

From: peacocks_song
Message: 4270
Date: 2004-03-21

--- 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.

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