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Chymaera
08-03-2002, 10:29 AM
Gondolin from the south (http://www.banffgondola.com/cam/images/best.jpg)

Wish you were here! In Fabled Gondolin.

Do you know a picture that reminds you of a scene from Middle-Earth? send us a post card ;)
Muffinly
08-06-2002, 05:30 AM
here it is with a caption. It is too bad they don't make a runes of Gondolin font.
Aragorn*9
08-11-2002, 04:38 AM
Cool, thanks for sharing!
Julie:)
Chymaera
08-11-2002, 12:10 PM
Originally posted by Muffinly
It is too bad they don't make a runes of Gondolin font. the have some fonts at barrowdowns.com I believe
Dragon
08-12-2002, 03:36 AM
yeah, they do, there's different types for mac and windows, too
Muffinly
08-12-2002, 06:24 AM
:( But they don't have the runes of Gondolin there.
i already have every imaginable Tolkien font.
Chymaera
08-12-2002, 11:34 AM
Then it is up to you to create them yourself. Find the Fontwrights and demand your due.;)

Really someone must be able to help out here.
Muffinly
08-13-2002, 04:23 AM
i wouldn't use it if I had it. The only use would have been for the postcard.



Anyway, they would never make it because it only occurs once, in The Hobbit on the swords.

Of course, they mest up on the swords in the movie. Glamdring and Sting were in the wrong language.
Chymaera
08-17-2002, 08:25 PM
Muffinly I believe this is what you wanted.;) :D
Muffinly
08-19-2002, 12:22 AM
No, those are not runes.
Runes are figures that were used to carve in stone and wood, composed mostly of straight lines.

That was a form of tengwar, but in that font the keys don't match up with the actual letter, so whatever you typed was unreadable. I don't know what you tried to say, though.







AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

(Sorry, random outburst)
Bombadillo
08-19-2002, 05:27 PM
isn't there a computer freak and tolkien freak who can settle that little problem, how hard is it to match at least a few of these markings with you're keybord...
Muffinly
08-20-2002, 05:29 AM
There is a computer program for doing that.
It's called tengwar scribe and it works with the Dan Smith Tengwar fonts.

Go here if you want it.

http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/tengscribe.htm
Chymaera
08-26-2002, 10:33 AM
Originally posted by Muffinly
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

(Sorry, random outburst)

Its OK to vent sometimes.
I was just messing around and you have shown yourself to be more scholarly then I.;)