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Duncan Robertson

Drop + LOTR Elvish keyboard review: "Worthy of Tolkien himself"

Drop + LOTR Elvish Keyboard review image of the whole keyboard.

Something I love about Tolkien's rich world and history is that more than any other fantasy setting I know, it evokes a sort of "spirit". It's that feeling you get when you hear a piece of Howard Shore's film soundtrack or see an illustrative painting by Ted Naismith. It's a feeling, more than anything, that something has been crafted with love - not to make a quick buck, make some sweeping allegory, or simply create for creation's sake. Drop's Lord of the Rings Elvish Keyboard embodies that spirit. 

As someone with dyslexia, this is not a keyboard I should be able to use. The keycaps are emblazoned with Tengwar symbols and the English lettering is tiny and hard to scan. But of course, these Tolkein language keycaps are the entire appeal of Drop's LOTR collection. Although it took some getting used to, my brain quickly remembered the layout of a QWERTY keyboard, and my letter-jumbling brain somehow got by.

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