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The Cirth is a semi‑artificial script, based on real‑life runic alphabets, one of several scripts invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. Cirth is
Rock carving in Cirth in the Sydney Harbour National Park, dating back to the 1980s at least
Gandalf
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Gandalf, in longer form Gandalf the Grey and later Gandalf the White, is a protagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He is a wizard, one of the Istari order, and t
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…reflecting the Anglo-Saxon spelling ⟨cƿ⟩. Not all the runes mentioned in The Hobbit are Dwarf-runes. The swords found in the Trolls' cave bore runes that Gandalf could not read. In fact, the swords Glamdring and Orcrist (which were forged in the ancient kingdom of Gondolin) bore a type of letters known as…
Gandalf (right) turning trolls to stone in a detail from one of J.R.R. Tolkien's drawings for The Hobbit
Gwaihir the Eagle rescues Gandalf from Orthanc. Scraperboard illustration by Alexander Korotich, 1981
Tolkien said that Der Berggeist by Josef Madlener was the origin of Gandalf.
Väinämöinen as depicted by Akseli Gallen-Kallela in The Defense of the Sampo (1896)