I will follow you to death and beyond...
(Glenn and I will both be getting this tattooed in the coming months because no truer words than these were spoken. It so fits us and this love. It is written in Tengwar Script, as some of you might know, Tengwar is the script that Tolkien invented for the Hobbit and the remaining series of books.)
J.R.R. Tolkien created many languages throughout his life. He wrote in one of his letters that the tales of Middle-earth (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, etc) grew from these languages, rather than the languages being created for use in the stories.
Tolkien also created a number of different alphabets to write his languages - Tengwar, or Feanorian letters, is the one which appears most frequently in his work. The way the vowels are indicated in Tengwar resembles Tibetan and other Brahmi-derived scripts.

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