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elvish
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n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the beautiful
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Celtic half-uncial hand of the Book of Kells. Invented and described by J.
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R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of The Rings as an orthography for his fictional
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elvish languages, this system (which is both visually and phonetically
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elegant ) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by
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artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers,
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plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as
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one of their demo items. See also elder days. 2. By extension, any odd or
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unreadable typeface produced by a graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely
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called Bcklin , an art-Noveau display font.
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