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Jircniv Rune Farlord El Nix (Jirukunifu Rūn Fārōdo Eru Nikusu) Voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai (Japanese); Austin Tindle (English) The current emperor of the Baharuth Empire, he is calm and pragmatic. However, he purges anyone who gets in his way and replaces them with those he deems more suitable, earning him the nickname "Bloody Emperor".
In the fictional setting of Middle-earth, little is known of Khuzdul (once written Khuzdûl), the Dwarves kept it secret, except for place names and a few phrases such as their battle-cry and Balin's tomb inscription in Moria, which read respectively: [1]
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
After the spread of Christianity in these regions, and the increase in runic literacy that followed, runes were used for record-keeping and found on things like weapons, ivory, and coins. [ 6 ] Most early medieval Scandinavians were probably literate in runes , and most people probably carved messages on pieces of bone and wood. [ 2 ]
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
The Cirth rune for the letter "G" on a grey field. Gandalf indicates his presence on Weathertop by scratching his rune on a stone. The mark is simple, hard to distinguish from mere scratches. [T 5] Saruman the White: The Cirth rune for the letter "S" on a white field. [T 6] A white hand on a black field. [T 6]
The main use of the term pseudo-rune is in reference to epigraphic inscriptions using letters that imitate the appearance of runes, but which cannot be read as runes. [4] These are different from cryptic or magical runic inscriptions comprising a seemingly random jumble of runic letters, which cannot be interpreted by modern scholars, but can ...
It is also known as the Honorian alphabet or the Runes of Honorius after the legendary magus (though Theban is dissimilar to the Germanic runic alphabet), or the witches' alphabet due to its use in modern Wicca and other forms of witchcraft as one of many substitution ciphers to hide magical writings such as the contents of a Book of Shadows ...