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elvish: n. 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling the
beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the Book of
Kells. Invented and described by J. R. R. Tolkien in
The Lord of The Rings as an orthography for his
fictional ‘elvish’ languages, this system (which is both
visually and phonetically elegant) has long
fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by artificial languages in
general). It is traditional for graphics printers, plotters, window
systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of their demo
items. See also elder days. 2. By extension, any odd or unreadable typeface produced by a
graphics device. 3. The typeface mundanely called ‘Böcklin’, an
art-Noveau display font.
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