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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>elvish</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="ELIZA-effect.html" title="ELIZA effect"/><link rel="next" href="EMACS.html" title="EMACS"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">elvish</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ELIZA-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EMACS.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="elvish"/><dt xmlns="" id="elvish"><b>elvish</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the
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beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the <i class="citetitle">Book of
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Kells</i>. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in
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<i class="citetitle">The Lord of The Rings</i> as an orthography for his
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fictional ‘elvish’ languages, this system (which is both
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visually and phonetically <a href="elegant.html"><i class="glossterm">elegant</i></a>) has long
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fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in
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general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window
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systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo
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items. See also <a href="elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a
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graphics device. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. The typeface mundanely called ‘Böcklin’, an
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art-Noveau display font.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ELIZA-effect.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../E.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="EMACS.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">ELIZA effect </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> EMACS</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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