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I had some trouble matching up some letters of the script on
the wall to my references, but it's clearly intended to be written in
Tengwar, Tolkein's elven script. An obvious guess is the inscription
on the ring, and sure enough, it's clearly a not-quite-right rendition
of that text.
http://www.tlotr.com/middle_earth/ring.gif
Here's the inscription with a english phonetic transcription:
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/exlotrr.htm
In the tongue of Mordor (Which I dare not even speak, particularly not
at this late hour), this is the first half of the One Ring's theme song:
"One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them". Perhaps the creature
writing in this long forgotten tongue got bored, thus failing to deliver
the punchline: "One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them"
Or perhaps the rest was written somewhere that you didn't notice with
your clearly inadequate lighting.
As an aside, most of the written text Tolkein depicts is engraved in
stone, and thus uses the runic alphabet which is basically unrelated to
this one.
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