Below is a table containing the standard Cirth letters and their Angerthas Moria values:
- | These letters are not used with the Angerthas Moria mode. |
' | Letter #35 represented a glottal stop sound. |
* | The values for these letters are sometimes swapped so that letters #34 & #35 represent the s sound, and #54 represents the h sound. |
[1] | Letter #55 represented a schwa sound. A schwa is an unstressed vowel that can be spelled with any vowel in English orthography. The schwa occurs only in unstressed syllables. |
[2] | Letter #56 represented a sound similar to the schwa. This sound occurs only in stressed syllables. |
Source:
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Volume I, "The Fellowship of the Ring"
Houghton-Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-27223-8
"The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Volume III, "The Return of the King", Appendix E
Houghton-Mifflin
ISBN 0-395-27221-1
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