Re: Tengwar and Cirth (was: RE: Fictional scripts revisited,

[Michael Everson]

At 10:35 -0600 2001-02-26, Ayers, Mike wrote:
   From: Michael Everson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

  Oh, we've got a *proposal* for Klingon. It does not, however, appear
  that it meets the criteria for use as well as Tengwar and Cirth.

   Okay, I've finally gotta ask:  what are Tengwar and Cirth?  Klingon
I've heard of (and wish I hadn't)...

Scripts invented by Fanor on the one hand and relatives of the
Noldor on the other, during the First Age of Middle Earth.

Very useful for writing to Elves.
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RE: Tengwar and Cirth (was: RE: Fictional scripts revisited, migh

[jarkko . hietaniemi]

Tengwar and Cirth are the scripts used to write Tolkien's languages:

http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang/fonts/
http://fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/tengwar/tengwar/
http://fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/tengwar/cirth/
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/

 -Original Message-
 From: ext Ayers, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 11:14 AM
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 Subject: Tengwar and Cirth (was: RE: Fictional scripts 
 revisited, might
 as
 
 
 
  From: Michael Everson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
 
  Oh, we've got a *proposal* for Klingon. It does not, however, appear
  that it meets the criteria for use as well as Tengwar and Cirth.
 
   Okay, I've finally gotta ask:  what are Tengwar and 
 Cirth?  Klingon
 I've heard of (and wish I hadn't)...
 
 
 /|/|ike