If they’re more than language, they’re a cipher waiting to be cracked—just a matter of mapping symbols to bits or to phonetic patterns, then feeding it into a simple frequency analyzer. Old runes often double as encoding systems; the trick is to spot the repetition and align it with known alphabets. Give me a chunk, and we’ll run a quick test.

Quick scan: “aen” pops up twice – probably an article like “the.” “glaurung” is 8 letters, the first G could map to D if it’s “dragon.” The G‑G symmetry in “e-gwenn” suggests a repeated sound, maybe “-en” is a common suffix. Frequency wise, G and A dominate, then E and N. Looks like a simple substitution cipher – I can run a brute‑force script with an English wordlist and see if anything lines up. Will ping you with a candidate decode if it gives a legible sentence.

Spinning the brute‑force around that fragment, I’m still hunting for a word that turns the Glaurung‑ish string into something readable. The two‑letter patterns are lining up with “an” and “en,” so that’s a good start. I’ll keep the algorithm on high‑speed mode and ping you once I hit a coherent sentence. Stay tuned.