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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/redeye.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Tengwar vs. runes
The carving of the letters into the Ring must, in my eyes, have more been of a 'magical' manner, not mechanically (which could not have been anyway as the writings were only visible in fire). Therefore, there may have been no need to use Cirth, which are of course easier to carve into wood, stone and metal, after all, that was why the dwarves used them.
The use of Tengwar letters and Black Speech on the Ring has for me always had an air of deliberate provocation by Annatar. Words in his evil speech, but in the letters of the elves, of whose doom the writing tells. This could at least have been Sauron's motives as he crafted it.
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