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The first three lines: "All human beings are / born free and equal / in dignity and rights. The Tengwar ( / ˈ t ɛ ŋ ɡ w ɑː r / ) script is an artificial script , one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien , the author of The Lord of the Rings .
Athelas is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font in its Apple Books e-books application. [5] [6] It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008. [7] It is named after a healing herb in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. [8]
The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth.Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens.
Being a skilled calligrapher, Tolkien invented scripts as well as languages. Some of his scripts were designed for use with his constructed languages , others for more practical ends. [ 1 ] The Privata Kodo Skauta (Private Scout Code) from 1909 was designed to be used in his personal diary; it had both an alphabet and some whole-word ideographs ...
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The Cirth (Sindarin pronunciation:, meaning "runes"; sg. certh) is a semi‑artificial script, based on real‑life runic alphabets, one of several scripts invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works.
Over the past year, a number of high-profile companies have done about-faces on diversity, including Meta (), Walmart (), McDonald's (), Lowe’s (), Ford (), Tractor Supply (), and John Deere ...
Tolkien based Khuzdul on Semitic languages, primarily Hebrew, featuring triconsonantal roots and similarities to Hebrew's phonology and morphology. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Tolkien noted some similarities between Dwarves and Jews: both were "at once natives and aliens in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due ...