> > 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.
Since Tolkien was a philologist and a lexicographer he knew dozens of languages to varying degrees. He knew e.g. some Finnish (some say Quenya was inspired by it, and phonologically Q. does look like F.), but I certainly won't venture as far as to call him a _Finnish scholar_. An Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse scholar, certainly... >
