Sarati is an artificial script which was created by J. R. R. Tolkien. According to Tolkien's mythology, the Sarati alphabet was invented by Rúmil of Tirion in Valinor. When Fëanor created the later tengwar script, more ubiquitous both in Middle-earth and in real life, he modeled it after Sarati. Unlike tengwar and Tolkien's other alphabet, used mainly by the dwarves, the cirth, sarati is written in several different directions, though the most pr...
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