Elvish scripts

[stormwreath]

I created this earlier this evening, and thought one or two people here might find it interesting as well; it shows the contrast between Tolkien's different Elvish scripts and alphabets:

Comments

[gillo]

The Sarati reminds me of Indian scripts like Punjabi, rotated 90 degrees. Presumably there's a touch of Chinese/Japanese influence there too.

[stormwreath]

It definitely reminded me of Devanagari too. The Chinese perhaps because it's written right-to-left and top-to-bottom; but it is alphabetical, not character-based. (The red marks to the left of the lines are the vowels, the black to the right are consonants).

[samtyr]

Interesting. Sometimes it's easier to show differences than explain them. Thank you for sharing this.

[stormwreath]

Thanks- that was my thought too. And while I've heard of the Sarati before, this was the first time I sat down and read how it works. (And how to get the font I downloaded to show the right characters...)

[ext_2524885]

I really like the Sarati. It's beautiful and I like the direction it is written in, very exotic from a Western point of view.
Great as if I didn't hae enough reasons to dislike Feanor. Now I can "he replaces a cooler way of writing with his more efficient, but also more boring one" ;-)

[stormwreath]

The Sarati is interesting and exotic, but I think it would also be a lot harder to write, what with having to draw in the vertical lines; and the characters look a bit too complicated and random.

[prunesquallormd]

It is very easy to dislike Feanor. The guy was a bit of a dick. Just a bit ...

(On an unconnected but rather cool, note, the 'captcha' for this comment is 'the dude abides' :D).

[prunesquallormd]

Fascinating.
Thanks for this :)