NoME - Boustrophedon - alternate writing direction was actually quite common in antiquity

[Odola]

Regarding elves writing using - among others - this writing direction as discussed in the last week's session:

See e.g.:

Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Boustrophedon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tolkien must have been familiar with it due to his interest in historical languages.
He must have had fun imagining elves being the origin of this ancient custom.

 

[Rachel Port]

I knew this about hieroglyphics - one of these days I'll take the SPACE module on hieroglyphics.