6 has gotta be Celebrimbor. Am I remembering my Elvish correctly?
8. Nimrodel?
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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
So yes, in essence: "Feanor [wrote] an ABC book for the Tengwar letters, and use[d] [names] of these things because they had the right initials".  |
And he had plenty of real world precedent to do so. The challenge was to find what the Elvish words actually were without looking them up.
I wonder if in fact most cultures named the letters in their original alphabets with corresponding words.
6 Books was a fabulous clue!