Cirth

Origin

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 and The Silmarilion) 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
– he modelled Cirth on Anglo-Saxon and Norse Runes. Its function in
his stories is for inscriptions in wood and stone, just as Runes were
used in the real world.

Notable features

Written from left to right in horizontal lines.
The phonetic values of the letters vary for different languages.
Dots are used to separate words.

Used to write

A number of different languages of Middle-Earth, such as:

Quenya (Qenya or High-elven), the most prominent language of
the Amanya branch of the Elvish language family. Tolkien complied the
"Qenya Lexicon", his first list of Elvish words, in 1915 at
the age of 23 and continued to refine the language throughout his life.
It is based mainly on Finnish, but also partly on Greek and partly on
Latin.

Sindarin, the language of the Grey-elves or Sindar. Tolkien
based Sindarin on Welsh and originally called it gnomish.

Dwarvish, the language of the dwarves.