Talk:Ring-inscription
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Someone should really also add the inscription using the actual tengwar, but hmm, admittedly, that's tricky. Kim Bruning 17:44, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
What's tricky? We can either use 
or, if we'd like to avoid the stupid copyright issues, we can use some free Tengwar font type the text and make a screenshot. Personally I'd rather use the simplier first approach (I am adding the inscription to the article now), but if someone objects, write here and hopefully someone (may be even I) will waste some time to make a "clean-room" implementation. :) Paranoid 15:45, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Yay! Thank you very much! Kim Bruning 18:50, 8 Jun 2004 (UTC)
I found this line in the text of this article: "It seems that the inscription uses Elvish lettering because the other Rings of Power were made by the Elves." Is this the whole story (or even the most important part of it)? My understanding was that Sauron more or less had to use an Elvish script because that was all anybody had, and the Tengwar script was readily adaptible to any language. It seems to me that if Elvish influence were responsible, it would have been written in some other language, since the Black Speech was anathema. --[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 21:08, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)