User blog:SamwiseFilmore/Dwarven Moon Runes, Among Other Things

So a while back, my sister made a runes chart for a bunch of different cool rune alphabets. One of the alphebets on the code ring was an Anglo-Saxon rune alphabet. For those of you who don't know, J.R.R. Tolkein was a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford for some time, and it just so happens that he used Anglo-Saxon runes for the Moon Runes that appear in the Hobbit. Anyway, I took my copy of the hobbit, which not only contains the Moon Runes read by Elrond and the Runes on Thror's map, but title inscriptions on the cover and spine of the book. I copied all these in to my notebook and used my sister's code ring to decode them. Now, as you would expect from a code ring not designed for the translations that I was doing, there were gaps in some of the words. Using my english skills, and some material from the book, I was able to match every rune to an english character. Since then, I have become proficeint in the reading and writing of Dwarven Moon Runes, and have taught them to a few of my friends. Here are the pictures of the charts -

So, since I am fluent, I challege you, the community of the LOTR Minecraft Mod, to do the same. Send me a picture of a letter you have written, or do some other cool thing with it. Also, if anyone can actually read, speak, or write in any of the actual languages, I would be much obliged if you would willing to teach me some basics. Give me some feedback, and, if the pics are too fuzzy, let me know.

- SamwiseFilmore