Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25565811-20161113004930

As most of you might know, J.R.R. Tolkien was a linguist (besides of various other professions) and invented some Middle-earth languages. He also used anglo-saxon ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ for Dwarven texts in the initial drafts of "The Lord of the Rings", later on, he replaced them by cirth runes. You'll find runes in "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings".

I thought, our wiki could also use some of those. This thread of SamwiseFilmore gave me the idea, to add all 33 anglo-saxon ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ to the wiki according to their meaning.

I used the anglo-saxon variety instead of cirth, because the first have meanings bound to them (sometimes unclear and disputed on by linguists), the latter have not. Also, my computer can't display cirth uni-code. I hope, yours is able to display the anglo-saxon ones.

Check ᛖ-horse, ᛥ-stone, ᚣ-bow and ᚪ-oak and ᛒ-birch for easy examples. Some ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ, such as ᛢ-fire, ᛠ-grave or ᚠ-wealth were much harder to fit into our pages, but I think, I did quite well.

I tried out using runes in the modded game as well. I succeded in using them in the chat (copy-paste), and now also own a dwarven warhammer named ᚷᚱᛟᚾᛞ on an anvil. Sadly, it's not possible to paste text into signs.

I hope you like what I added to the wiki. I think, some small citations in Runic, especially for dwarven pages, could be added as well. Those should have the transciption into Latin letters included. 