| The Anglo-Saxon futhorc used by Tolkien has 31 distinct characters, some of which have variants. |
| One inscription is a copy of the twenty-eight letters of the runic alphabet, known as the futhorc. |
| And though it only lists the runestaves of the Younger Futhark, it appears alongside an Old English futhorc. |
| If you compare the futhorc given above, you will see that Tolkien has altered some the rune shapes. |
| The ordered set of letters, what we call the alphabet, was referred to as the futhark, or futhorc, or other like names, depending on the language and the current letter set. |
| It didn't really matter if I mixed Latin written in a Scandinavian futhark with English or Italian in a Celtic futhorc in the same painting. |
