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Drop + The Lord of the Rings Elvish Keyboard

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Drop partners with Middle-earth Enterprises to bring out official The Lord of the Rings inspired keyboards. Today we examine the Elvish keyboard, featuring custom artwork and keycaps on a matching keyboard case, using Drop's popular Holy Panda X switches to make for a treat to the Tolkien fanbase.

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But is it personally signed by Elrond?
 
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Imagine the Quality Assurance department for this product.

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Can you actually learn Elvish and type in Elvish this way I wonder... that would be neat if so. If I remember right, Tolkien did make it a fully functioning langauge?
 
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Space Lynx said:
Can you actually learn Elvish and type in Elvish this way I wonder... that would be neat if so. If I remember right, Tolkien did make it a fully functioning langauge?
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Yes, it's a fully functioning language and this keyboard can be used to type in it with some programs. I've mentioned it in page 1.
 
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Yes, it's a fully functioning language and this keyboard can be used to type in it with some programs. I've mentioned it in page 1.
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I always skip to conclusion page on almost all reviews, sorry! The Pros/Cons charts are always the go to for me on reviews.
 
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Great review. Switches are right up my street I love the tactile switched. Currently using the Tecsee Purple Panda, shame the switches are soldered. This is a deal breaker for me, oh and the fact I don't speak Elvish!
Now we would be having a different conversation if this was a Klingon keyboard, lol....
 
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This would be so awesome! :cool: Only if I could read elvish. :(
 
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Yeey. Finally I can properly chat with my elven friends.
 
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mechtech said:
Hope they make a Klingon keyboard soon. ;)
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If they do, they should base it on original Star Trek klingons, or from The Next Generation, and not the alternate timeline, or Disco or any other postmodern crap.
 
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Vayra86 said:
Imagine the Quality Assurance department for this product.

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Diversity for the keyboard, it's still a keyboard just a broken one, all warranty's void.
 
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Well written!

Lots of reviews and user comments mix up the Tengwar script and Elvish languages (Quenya, Sindarin)...

And I don't think many buyers even consider writing in Tengwar with this keyboard. It's just as an empty keyboard to them, with some cool devices that don't distract, and they have the normal US layout memorised, and use it as that.

There are many better ways of writing Tengwar than with a dedicated keyboard. There are transcribing tools on the net, and in form of programs and apps - writing in Tengwar means memorising lots of rules about uses of different characters (it's not just 1:1 letter replacement, even when writing English), tehta (wovel sign) placement, those transcribers help with that. And of course, you can always grab a calligraphy pen.

And neither Quenya nor Sindarin are "fully functioning languages". They don't have extensive dictionaries, they are even missing large parts of their grammars. So every time you're not just reusing sentences Tolkien already wrote you're forced to invent and speculate. That's why for instance David Salo called the language used in LotR movies "neo-Sindarin".
 
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Bwaze said:
Well written!

Lots of reviews and user comments mix up the Tengwar script and Elvish languages (Quenya, Sindarin)...

And I don't think many buyers even consider writing in Tengwar with this keyboard. It's just as an empty keyboard to them, with some cool devices that don't distract, and they have the normal US layout memorised, and use it as that.

There are many better ways of writing Tengwar than with a dedicated keyboard. There are transcribing tools on the net, and in form of programs and apps - writing in Tengwar means memorising lots of rules about uses of different characters (it's not just 1:1 letter replacement, even when writing English), tehta (wovel sign) placement, those transcribers help with that. And of course, you can always grab a calligraphy pen.

And neither Quenya nor Sindarin are "fully functioning languages". They don't have extensive dictionaries, they are even missing large parts of their grammars. So every time you're not just reusing sentences Tolkien already wrote you're forced to invent and speculate. That's why for instance David Salo called the language used in LotR movies "neo-Sindarin".
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I learned more about LotR lore from your post than one ever could from The Hobbit movies and Amazon's TV series (the one that shall not be named) combined. :respect:
 
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