![]() Tolkien's Elvish scripts always distinguish them with different characters. What's the difference? The dh sound is a hard th, as in this, while the true th sound is a soft th as in thin. They are two distinct sounds, even though we use th to represent both of them in English. The rune that I transliterated as th in "the" is more properly transliterated dh.Similarly, the word book is written with three characters: b + oo (which looks a little like an M) + k. So "the" is written with two characters: a th rune and an e rune. The sounds th, ng, oo are each represented by one character (certh).~ THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRANSLATED FROM THE RED BOOK ~ Notes: ![]() Elvish Runes on the Title Page of "The Lord of the Rings"
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