tolkienlanguages1-4  Exercise 3: Tengwar and Cirth
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A sample answer.

                  Tengwar                       Cirth
  Made by         Feanor (Elf)                  the Sindar; Daeron expanded
  Used for        Quenya, Telerin, later others carving names in wood, stone
                  (flowing, written with a pen) and metal
  Built how       stem + bows, series x grades  angular strokes; a stroke
                  (place x manner); vowels as   added to a branch adds voicing
                  marks above consonants
  Differs from    letters laid out by sound     angular, made for carving;
  Latin           table; vowels are marks       values changed by Dwarves

In both, a sound-based system replaces the unrelated shapes of the Latin
alphabet.