Category Archives: Language

All about Khuzdul

Honouring those that fell

Posted on March 8, 2018 by The Dwarrow Scholar

As a few of you may know, when I’m not working on the dwarvish dictionary, replying to some of your wonderful Tumblr questions, or posting other material available through http://www.dwarrowscholar.com, I greatly enjoy roaming LOTRO, Middle Earth as created by Standing Stone Games. So, … Continue reading →

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“TDS Dwarvish” a free new font to make writing in dwarvish runes easier.

Posted on February 20, 2017 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Writing in Khuzdul, while not transcribing it in Latin characters but using the proper runes can be a big challenge, especially given the fact that most runic fonts seem to have the character mappings wrong.  Meaning that if you type … Continue reading →

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Fancy LotRO RP in Neo-Khuzdul? Now you can!

Posted on August 27, 2015 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Update: The plugin-in should actually work on a Mac. Hail! Remember I spoke about a tool for LotRO Dwarf RPers, allowing them to speak Dwarvish with the click of a button (or two)…. well, without further ado, I present to … Continue reading →

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Updates to come

Posted on April 26, 2015 by The Dwarrow Scholar

As some of you may have noticed, David Salo (the linguist responsible for the Neo-Khuzdul in the Hobbit movies) has recently released (and continues to do so) much of his notes related to these films on his wonderful site midgardsmal. … Continue reading →

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Translations, Tattoos and Prayers

Posted on March 27, 2015 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Hello my friends, It has been quite some time since the last post here. Though it must be said the reason for that is nothing but good news (in my view). As I have been spending this time mainly on … Continue reading →

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TBOTFA SPOILER – Love is all you need

Posted on December 11, 2014 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Updated 30/12/2014 SPOILER ALERT Before you read on, if you haven’t seen The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies and don’t want to spoil it for yourself, come back when you’ve seen it. If you have seen the film, … Continue reading →

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Neo-Khuzdul comes to LoTRO

Posted on October 2, 2014 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Well met all! As part of the updated neo-khuzdul material (that has been finished and will be available in the very near future)… lessons will be offered to all you dwarves out there that are a bit rusty on the … Continue reading →

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Insulting Elves

Posted on June 4, 2014 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Update: June 20th: David Salo has since published a detailed explanation of the phrase seen in the films.   Thank you for that David.   All updates in the below article are placed in italic.   As many have requested my … Continue reading →

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The Dwarrow Scholar needs you!

Posted on May 8, 2014 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Well met! Those that are giving me a somewhat angry look… mercy please! *starts waving a little white flag*.  It has indeed been a tremendous long time since my last post… and I’ve kept everyone waiting for the updated materials… … Continue reading →

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Kili’s Runestone

Posted on December 24, 2013 by The Dwarrow Scholar

SPOILER ALERT There has been some discussion of late related to Kili’s Runestone featured in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. The Big question most have is (apart from why doesn’t WETA™ already have this in their shop?)… “what do … Continue reading →

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