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Translation and transcription for a tattoo, Khuzdul/Cirth

Murder Crow

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I am wanting the phrase, "Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!" - Khuzdul ("Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!") - English
put into Cirth runes or possibly neo-Khuzdul runes for a tattoo. I attached what I could come up with using appendix E in Return of the King. But i'm not sure it's correct because of the special characters and how the words are pronounced.
 

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Two thngs: I wouldn’t use a hyphen in ai-mênu, e. g. on Balin’s tombstone the Khuzdul for Khazad-dûm reads Khazaddûm, and I’d make a difference between spaces (single dot) and full stops (triple dots)

And you still have the wrong character for KH. The table in the Appendix uses a slightly confusing, but Balin’s tombstone illustartes the right spelling quite nicely:

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Two thngs: I wouldn’t use a hyphen in ai-mênu, e. g. on Balin’s tombstone the Khuzdul for Khazad-dûm reads Khazaddûm, and I’d make a difference between spaces (single dot) and full stops (triple dots)

And you still have the wrong character for KH. The table in the Appendix uses a slightly confusing, but Balin’s tombstone illustartes the right spelling quite nicely:

1666208725139.png
 
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