12-31-2001, 08:46 PM | #1 |
Sapling
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Question
The runes used in The Hobbit on Thor's map are English runes and are simple to translate, but runes used in The Lord of the Rings ( such as the ones on Balin's Tombstone) are not of that same sort. It seems that the one's in The Lord of the Rings are Daeron's runes which were modified by the dwarves of Moria. Is there any reason to explain this difference???
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12-31-2001, 10:15 PM | #2 |
Elven Warrior
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Im willing to bet the publisher had something to do with it. I cannot think of any reason Thor would not have used The Cirth and I certainly can't imagine him using unmodified english runes.
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10-13-2008, 10:05 AM | #3 | |
Elven Warrior
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In 1937 Tolkien wrote that the Anglo-Saxon runes in The Hobbit were 'regretfully substituted to avoid abstruseness for the genuine alphabets... of the mythology into which Mr Baggins intrudes'.
Arden Smith notes (in Certhas, Skirditalia, Futhark, published in Tolkien's Legendarium) that: Quote:
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