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 `Bo"cklin', an art-Noveau
display font.
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