TheokinsJ
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Since I watched the Lord of The Rings films and read the books, I have been fascinated by Tengwar, the elvish language created by Tolkien. In his lifetime Tolkien created several variations of elvish and dwarvish, which he developed throughout his books. Now writing my own fantasy series, I'd like to try to create an equally believable and fluid language for the people of my world. I realise creating a language is a monumental task, but I believe it would be fun and also pretty cool. Does anyone know of any techniques used in creating an alphabet for a language? I've already created some words, heavily based off old norse and icelandic, however creating the alphabet for my language seems to be my biggest obstacle. I originally thought about using the Eldar Futhrak, (The alphabet of the nords) but soon realised that it was similar to Tolkien's dwarvish alphabet far too much. Anyone have any tips or know of any resources/websites that could help me out?
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