Kid2323<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>And coincidentally, aren't the words Legolas reads actually from the chapter in Unfinished Tales about the Druadan and the man who says the words and then dies?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P>I don’t know if it’s in UT, but it is in ROTK, The Muster of Rohan. <P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>'Maybe he was called,' said Théoden; 'and my heart tells me that I shall not see him again. Yet he is a kingly man of high destiny. And take comfort in this, daughter, since comfort you seem to need in your grief for this guest. It is said that when the Eorlingas came out of the North and passed at length up the Snowbourn, seeking strong places of refuge in time of need, Brego and his son Baldor climbed the Stair of the Hold and so came before the Door. On the threshold sat an old man, aged beyond guess of years; tall and kingly he had been, but now he was withered as an old stone. Indeed for stone they took him, for he moved not, and he said no word, until they sought to pass him by and enter. And then a voice came out of him, as it were out of the ground, and to their amaze it spoke in the western tongue: 'The way is shut'.<BR> 'Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. <B>’The way is shut’, his voice said again ‘It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut.’ </B><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>I love the way that legolas reads the sign from right to left. Does anyone know if ths is something taken from Tolkien's creation of this language? i.e. did Tolkien create a language that was read right to left?
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