Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25330335-20161229180431

For those of you who got here through forum activity, this isn't a suggestion, it's on the fun and games board. :P

Alright, so when I reread the hobbit, Bilbo said that he had always been interested in other scripts or languages. Actually, Bilbo and I have that in common. While I was cleaning my room this week (after 2+ years of accumulation...) I found some old notebooks and stuff that had different runescripts. One thing came to another, and I wrote out a quote I had copied down a few weeks earlier in one of the runscripts that I had. Here it is:Anywho, my challenge to you guys is to translate the runscript back to our everyday latin script. I have a number of rules and properties below.

Format
The reason I put this in a forum thread and not a blog post is that I'd like it to be a group translation effort. That would mean that we could work together to get different bits translated. You can do it on your own and post questions here, but Ideally each individual would help a bit and we'd end up with the correct translation.

Logistical Rules
Just some business...
 * 1) Don't Look up what you think the text may be to find a siligum or codebreaker wheel. Part of the fun of this activity is to do it the hard way. If you're going to do that (which I allow you to so long as you follow this condition), please don't post anything here, and preferably not elsewhere on the wiki.
 * 2) If you solve it on your own, send your plaintext to me at mggmugginsmc@gmail.com, rather than posting it on the wiki anywhere. That preserves the fun for others. At least use a spoiler if you don't want to e-mail me for whatever reason.
 * 3) Don't argue and be mean. It's not worth that.
 * 4) You can modify the image above any way you want. I don't really care. Feel free to post cropped snippets anywhere. A full resolution image can be found by clicking on the image above (maybe open it in a new tab so you don't close this one...).

Text Rules
Here are the rules I tried to follow when writing out the cipher.
 * 1) There is no punctuation of any kind. The sentences just run together. If you get it figured out enough, you should be able to input the punctuation.
 * 2) I tried to make as few mistakes as possible, and I used whiteout on a few occasions (as you can see :P). I apologize for mistakes and other errors in advance, and I of course will follow this thread and answer questions as I see fit (which will be most of the time...).
 * 3) Regarding dots, I think I did a fairly good job keeping dots with their respective runes. Just ask below with any questions.
 * 4) The text is direct letter-to-letter translation of English characters. This means that each symbol has exactly one English letter that it corresponds to. The translated version of this text is written in English.
 * 5) The last line is a word (which you will probably be able to get by the time you're done), and then two numbers and a missing digit (which is something I didn't have in my siligum). Those last two characters and the space are supposed to be the digits "103". Because I didn't use numbers anywhere else, I will give this info out now.
 * 6) Some letters do look like our latin alphabet. Letters that are similar in our alphabet are usually similar in this one. You may take advantage of that.
 * 7) Let me know if I missed anything. :P

Tips
Here are a few tips for brute-forcing the runes like this. They all assume the idea that the text is English, not ciphered in any way.
 * 1) Look for common words or phrases that are repeated multiple times in the sample. These can be very helpful, depending on their length (hint hint...)
 * 2) If you can't figure out a certain section, move on, or look around. Sometimes it's not possible to get a certain word or set of words until you've done easier sections.
 * 3) Sometimes you have to guess. There will be cases where you have a letter or two missing, and you can infer that those symbols mean certain letters. Don't imagine that these are set in stone. You can be wrong, and It will probably happen. It's not a big deal, just do what you can.
 * 4) I didn't actually try to do this before I gave this to you, so I don't know how possible it is. However, I've done this with much smaller snippets and a few context clues.
 * 5) When you get done and the text could be interpreted as communist, it's not a political statement, just a quote that I liked. :P

Ask questions and get started below!

 