Re: Tengwar added to Plane1 Unicode Demo Page

From: Alejandros Diamandidis (adia@egnatia.ee.auth.gr)
Date: Mon Jan 07 2002 - 10:50:10 EST


* Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu> [2002-01-07 18:06]:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Tex Texin wrote:
>
> > Thanks to Tom Gewecke, I have added a Tengwar entry for Frodo Baggins,
> > to the Plane 1 Demo page.
>
> But shouldn't you write his name in Cirth? I think that was the script
> Hobbits used. Quoting <http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/mdtci.html#DTS7>:

And in any case, the Hobbit names in the books are English translations,
actually, and not their original names. But since you can find English
written in both Tengwar and Cirth in Tolkien's works, maybe it doesn't
matter anyway.

-- 
Alejandros Diamandidis * adia@hellug.gr * adia@egnatia.ee.auth.gr



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