Cirth

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Cirth is a runic script devised by J.R.R. Tolkien for his Middle-earth legendarium, primarily used to write the Elvish language Sindarin and other tongues.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cirth canonical 20
Invention of the Cirth 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf constructed script
fictional writing system
adaptedBy Dwarves
adaptedFor Khuzdul phonology
appearsInWork The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
contrastedWith Tengwar
creator J. R. R. Tolkien
describedInWork The History of Middle-earth
The Lord of the Rings Appendix E
The Road Goes Ever On
designedForMedium carving on stone
carving on wood
documentationStatus partially standardized by Tolkien's appendices
etymologyLanguage Sindarin
fandomUsage used by fans for decorative inscriptions
feature angular letter shapes
distinct signs for consonants and vowels (in later variants)
genre fantasy linguistics
hasNameMeaning "runes" in Sindarin
hasTransliterationSystem Latin alphabet transliteration
hasUnicodeProposal proposed encoding for Cirth
hasVariant Angerthas Daeron
Angerthas Erebor
Angerthas Moria
inspiredBy historical runic alphabets
inUniverseInventor Daeron of Doriath
primaryLanguage Sindarin
relatedConcept Angerthas
scriptType runic script
timeOfInventionInLegendarium First Age (in-universe)
linked to: First Age
usedByPeople Dwarves of Erebor
Dwarves of Moria
Men of the West
Sindar
usedForLanguage English (in adaptations and examples)
Khuzdul
Sindarin
Westron
usedInFictionalUniverse Middle-earth
usedOnObject Balin's tomb inscription
Doors of Durin inscription (in some representations)
Maps in The Hobbit
writingCategory alphabet
writingDirection left-to-right
writingSystemFamily Tolkienian scripts

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Sindarin writingSystem Cirth
Khuzdul writingSystem Cirth
Black Speech scriptUsed Cirth
Dwarves writingSystem Cirth
Adûni writingSystem Cirth
Falathrin writingSystem Cirth
Khazâd scriptedIn Cirth
Doriathrin writingSystem Cirth
Daeron notableWork Invention of the Cirth
linked to: Cirth
Daeron invented Cirth
Daeron usedScript Cirth