| And though it only lists the runestaves of the Younger Futhark, it appears alongside an Old English futhorc. |
| Another holds that runes were first introduced to England from Scandinavia where the futhorc was modified and then exported to Frisia. |
| The Old English rune poem is a rune poem that recounts the Old English runic alphabet, the futhorc. |
| From at least five centuries of use, fewer than 200 artefacts bearing futhorc inscriptions have survived. |
| If you compare the futhorc given above, you will see that Tolkien has altered some the rune shapes. |
| The Anglo-Saxon futhorc used by Tolkien has 31 distinct characters, some of which have variants. |
