On 09/09/2004 22:59, Michael Everson wrote:
At 17:07 -0400 2004-09-09, Dean Snyder wrote:
The vowel points in Hebrew are CHARACTERS,...
They are, for example, actually read sequentially, just like
one reads Latin consonants and vowels.
A lot like Tengwar, really.
This is hardly surprising, because I am sure that JRR Tolkien was aware
of how Hebrew script works. Indeed according to one site I found
(http://www.cv81pl.freeserve.co.uk/tolkien.htm) he was a Hebrew scholar,
but this doesn't strike me as very reliable information.
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