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To save other people the google: Tengwar is probably not in unicode because it is a fictional script from a book.


While U+A66E multiocular O can be found in just one manuscript, and it is still in Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiocular_O


Honestly, I wouldn't have thought that would be an issue to the Unicode folks. They have already allowed things (emoji) that have no place being in the standard, as they aren't even text.


I feel like Apple pushed the consortium to add a ton of useless emojis for whatever their own reasons were.


According to a sibling to what you replied to, it's because the shapes of the glyphs are still under copyright by known-litigious rightsholders and the Unicode consortium doesn't want to subject font authors to that.


I would wonder how many people are here who have never seen Tengwar. I would bet that's a minuscule minority.


I've never even heard of it before.


That's a higher bar than having seen it, I think. I also had to look it up, but as soon as I saw the images in Wikipedia I knew that it's from Lord of the Rings.


It is. But the even higher bar is that you actually write in this script.


Looks like Georgian




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