If you compare the futhorc given above, you will see that Tolkien has altered some the rune shapes. |
There was a Danish king of that name who was famed for his generosity, to whom the rune poem probably refers. |
Furthermore, several rune alphabets or futharks have been left behind to puzzle scholars. |
If I was as drunk as these bottles say I was, I couldn't have cast a rune, let alone a spell. |
Oddly enough, I memorized the Anglo-Saxon rune alphabet in high school with a friend of mine so we could pass notes in geometry class. |
Every stone of the edifice was marked with a rune, coursing with magical strength. |