Category Archives: Writings

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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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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Cirth

Posted on April 27, 2012 by The Dwarrow Scholar

Firstly, the initial C in Cirth is pronounced as a K, never as an S. With that out of the way, let’s move on… There are 3 common types of Cirth, one that was used by elves long ago, “Certhas … Continue reading →

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