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Re: New Site

From:Ian Spackman <ianspackman@...>
Date:Friday, August 8, 2003, 11:46
> >There's something I don't understand in the title written with the Tengwar >script. >Why is there a vowel carrier (the last character) with no vowel diacritic >above or below it?
IIRC Tolkien wrote that one vowel - often a - was often taken as understood. It seems especially appropriate in rendering something Indian, since the Indic scripts often have an "inherent" a, albeit of another sort? Ian

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