It is no coincidence that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (JRR Tolkien) and The Lord of the Rings became the inspiration for many later generations of writers specializing in the fantasy genre. In addition to the fascinating plot revolving around The One Ring, Tolkien also possesses the ability to build a massive fantasy world that is extremely detailed and deep. He even created his own languages for many peoples in his works, including the Elves.
It’s not just phrases, characters that are concatenated and read at random. All of them are carefully researched by Tolkien to come up with the rules of ligature, the rules of pronunciation and the most systematic and regular possible. Up to now, there have been many studies on the language sets that Tolkien created specifically for the land of Middle-earth. As for die hard fans of The Lord of the Rings, being able to read and write fluently the languages of the elves or dwarves is probably a dream that everyone wants to achieve.
The Lord of the Rings not only opens a vast fantasy land of Middle-earth, but also a massive linguistic work of JRR Tolkien.
That’s why a keycap artist nicknamed Matt3o has created The Lord of the Rings-style keyboards, with each key representing a letter of the Sindarin alphabet – the language of the elves. These are not only keycaps designed “for it to be beautiful”, but absolutely can be used to type text in Sindarin, as long as the user owns the necessary font set and understands the basic rules. of the language that Tolkien created.
Matt3o is a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings, and this is not the first time he has created products related to this franchise. However, the Sindarin keycap set above is fully licensed by Middle-Earth Enterprises, which holds the copyright of most of the creative products related to Tolkien’s works.
Keycap set with Sindarin language characters from Matt3o’s The Lord of the Rings.
Matt3o’s keycap set, officially called The Lord of the Rings MT3 Elvish, is expected to go on sale early this year for a pre-order price of $100/set. To visualize how to use this special keyboard as well as some principles in using the Sindarin language, please watch the video below.
[Vietsub] How to use The Lord of the Rings MT3 Elvish keycap set to write Sindarin language in Tolkien’s novel series.
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