--- peacocks_song <peacocks_song@...> wrote:

> --- 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.
>

I think the dwarvish runes are called Cirth. They have
the same use, carving in wood, stone and metal.


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