Drop’s latest Lord of the Rings keyboard wants us to give Mordor a chance
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#68M6W)
The keyboard features an Eye of Sauron illustration above its arrow keys. | Image: Drop Drop is back with a third Lord of the Rings-themed keyboard. But unlike its first two, which drew their language and iconography from the good guy Elves and Dwarves, the third is all about celebrating darkness. The keyboard pairs the Black Speech keycap set - a black-on-grey twist on the Elven set that evokes the language of Mordor (which I will not utter here) - with a special version of Drop's ENTR keyboard. It's available to preorder now, with shipping expected mid-April.
Tolkien's Black Speech didn't have a written form, and the one example in the Lord of the Rings - the inscription on the One Ring, found here on the space bar - used an Elven script. The Black Speech keycaps use the same Tengwar lettering and Sindarin modifiers as...