Cirth
Sign in to saveThe Cirth (, meaning "runes"; sg. certh ) 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 written with a capital letter when referring to the writing system; the letters themselves can be called cirth.
Key facts
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- 180px
- Writing system.name
- Cirth
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- The word "Cirth" written using the Cirth in the Angerthas Daeron mode
- Writing system.type
- Alphabet
- Writing system.languages
- Khuzdul, Sindarin, Quenya, Westron, English
- Writing system.creator
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Writing system.iso15924
- Cirt
- Writing system.direction
- Varies
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- Cirth (in Private Use Area)
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- E080
- Unicode block.rangeend
- E0FF
- Unicode block.assigned
- 109
- Unicode block.script1
- Artificial Scripts
- Unicode block.alphabets
- Cirth
- Unicode block.sources
- CSUR
- Unicode block.codechart
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- Unicode block.note
- Part of Private Use Area; possible conflicting fonts
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15 sectionsContents
- External history
- Concept and creation
- Internal history and description
- ''Certhas''
- ''Angerthas Daeron''
- ''Angerthas Moria''
- ''Angerthas Erebor''
- Other runic scripts by Tolkien
- Runes from ''The Hobbit''
- Gondolinic runes
- Encoding schemes
- Unicode
- ConScript Unicode Registry
- See also
- References
The Cirth (, meaning "runes"; sg. certh ) 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 written with a capital letter when referring to the writing system; the letters themselves can be called cirth.
In the fictional history of Middle-earth, the original Certhas was created by the Sindar (or Grey Elves) for their language, Sindarin. Its extension and elaboration was known as the Angerthas Daeron, as it was attributed to the Sinda Daeron, despite the fact that it was most probably arranged by the Noldor in order to represent the sounds of other languages like Quenya and Telerin.