Re: writing system
| From: | B. Garcia <madyaas@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, January 2, 2005, 12:59 |
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On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 06:24:27 -0600, Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> wrote:
> IMHO, the most beautiful script is Tengwar; second thereto being only
> Georgian mkhedruli. I don't know where Tolkien got his inspiration, but
> there are eery resemblances in shape and sometimes in value to mkhedruli:
> Sindarin <s> is almost identical to mkhedruli _sani_, and the whole feel
> of the alphabet is similar.
>
While _I_ on the other hand find tengwar pretty, but not nearly as
beautiful as the many forms of Arabic, or grass script Chinese. I also
tend to prefer Indic style scripts as well (evidenced by my Kuraw)