26 Feb, 2023
2023-2-26 3:59:05 PM UTC
Hi there! I bought two Lord of the Rings/ Middle Earth vintage pins as a gift for my twin a few days ago. One says "Frodo Lives", so that's fine. The other one is runes, I believe, surrounded in Elvish writing? There's another one elsewhere on this site saying that the runes loosely translate to "Go Go Gandalf" ? but I wanted to know if this is correct and if anyone knows what the rest of the writing says. Thank you for the help! Sorry if it's upside down in my photo. It's hard for me to tell.
26 Feb, 2023
2023-2-26 4:07:29 PM UTC
I've put the first button right side up now ?
In the middle it does say "Go Go Gandalf".
The tengwar around the edges says "naur an edraith ammen / naur dan i ngaurhoth" which is Gandalf's spell "fire for saving us / fire against the wolf-horde".
[Edit to add] This pin was designed by John Closson in the mid 1960s (prior to 1966 at least). There are some fun variants out there, see
https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/w ... page=John+Closson+Buttons
26 Feb, 2023
2023-2-26 4:08:41 PM UTC
26 Feb, 2023
2023-2-26 6:43:33 PM UTC
Ha ha thanks. That was my next question so thank you for showing me which way it goes :) Thank you for all the information! I wanted to make sure I knew what the pin said before I handed it to my sister as
a gift :) thank you so much!
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