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Old 12-23-2008, 08:40 AM   #2
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I suspect TOlkien would have answered that it depends on the culture using the tengwar.

It is an adaptable script, used for various languages. He comments (somehwere) on the frontspeice which has a funky abreeviation for "Of The", mushing it all into one word, almost one symbol. Adaptation.

SO I suspect that he would say, for english, sure, separate the words.

Are you asking if the words get separated in Sindarin and in Quenya? I think I might have known that once, but now it has faded into legend, and thence myth.
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