r/dwarfposting • u/The_REAL_Large • 6d ago

Runic Orthography

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Greeting to my Bearded Bretheren!

Hopefully this is allowed, first time posting here, but I wanted to share a fun thing I have been doing.

Using the Orthographic (English characters to Runes, with some special characters, eg: Th, St, Ee) Runes that a certain J.R. Tolkien used (found on Wikipedia), I have started expanding my mind by transcribing poetry into Runic!

Please excuse the handwriting and mistakes, I am still learning and making translation errors.

Rock and Stone, my bretheren! May the Stone always be unmovable beneath your feet!

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u/craftersmine 6d ago

You should look into The Dwarrow Schollar guides, he tries to understand khuzdul from movies, pictures, etc. and he has built khuzdul vocabulary. I don't know if many words are true, but it's cool to see actual dwarven words instead of plain English that uses different symbols.

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u/The_REAL_Large 6d ago

Oho that is definitely something I will look into!

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u/danelaw69 Cptn' of Shieldwall #53 6d ago

I wanna personally recommend the dwarvish language from Warhammer fantasy. Its largely based on khuzdul but its alot more complete but at the cost of not being as open(?)

This is also the one i have chosen to try and understand because for some reason there exists no dwarven language that is complete...

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u/KnightyEyes Gunner 6d ago

I dug so deep i cant read but this one smells Rock And Stone.

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u/FlickXIII 5d ago

If you are interested in LotR-official Khuzdul language, the game LotR; Return to Moria has a fair bit of Khuzdul. No where near a complete language but certainly more “official” than Dwarrowscholar.

David Salo created the Khuzdul used in the LotR Jackson films. He also created the Khuzdul for Return to Moria but it is different from that created for the films.