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  2. Anglo-Saxon runes - Wikipedia

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    Several famous English examples mix runes and Roman script, or Old English and Latin, on the same object, including the Franks Casket and St Cuthbert's coffin; in the latter, three of the names of the Four Evangelists are given in Latin written in runes, but "LUKAS" is in Roman script. The coffin is also an example of an object created at the ...

  3. Free Typing Games: Games to Help You Back to School

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    We've collected the best free typing games from Games.com and around the web. Typer Shark. Typer Shark is an online game classic from Popcap games. In Typer Shark you command a dive to to search ...

  4. Sindarin - Wikipedia

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    "The Two Phonetic Values of ll in Elvish Sindarin in the Lord of the Rings" Tengwestië (2003). Jallings, Fiona (2017). A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin: A Textbook for the Elvish of Middle-earth. NEMVUS. ISBN 978-0-9974321-1-4. Marmor, Paula, Laurence Krieg, and David Strecker. "Initial Consonant Mutation in Celtic and Sindarin."

  5. Quenya - Wikipedia

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    The Elvish languages are a family of several related languages and dialects. The following is a brief overview of the fictional internal history of late Quenya as conceived by Tolkien. Tolkien imagined an Elvish society with a vernacular language for every-day use, Tarquesta, and a more educated language for use in ceremonies and lore ...

  6. Elvish languages of Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    "Sarati" in Tolkien's first Elvish script, Sarati. Tolkien wrote out most samples of Elvish languages with the Latin alphabet, but within the fiction he imagined many writing systems for his Elves. The best-known are the "Tengwar of Fëanor", but the first system he created, c. 1919, is the "Tengwar of Rúmil", also called the sarati.

  7. Translating The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has been translated, with varying degrees of success, into dozens of languages from the original English. He was critical of some early versions, and made efforts to improve translation by providing a detailed "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings", alongside an appendix "On Translation" in the book itself.

  8. Rivendell - Wikipedia

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    Rivendell is a direct translation or calque into English of the Sindarin Imladris, both meaning "deep valley". The name Rivendell is formed by two English elements: "riven" (split, cloven) and "dell" (valley). Imladris was rendered "Karningul" in Westron, the "Common Tongue" of Middle-earth represented as English in the text of The Lord of the ...

  9. Elvish languages - Wikipedia

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    Elvish: Gael Baudino: Strands series: Romance languages [9] Elvish: Warcraft universe: Superficially resembles Tolkien's Elvish: Darnassian, Nazja, and Thalassian [10] are considered the modern elvish tongues spoken by the modern Kaldorei, the Naga, and the highborne (respectively), while Elvish itself is an ancient tongue no longer used as a ...