Ah, ok... I understand clearly now.Nasnandos wrote: Tue Apr 06, 2021 10:35 am Flipped, as in reversed backwards? No, the runes read correct in the prop photos and on both the UC MC and Weta MS Glamdrings. Nothing is backwards. It's just the left and right side rune groups that were swapped compared to the stunt prop I had. The rune groups were not intended to read as one sentence left to right, so it does not read wrong either way.
The rune group on the left names Glamdring foe of Morgoth's realm, hammer to the Orcs. The group on the right says it is wielded by Turgon, King of Gondolin. The Salo translation I was given by Weta has that order reversed, as do the props used in TTT, ROTK, and The Hobbit.
Yes, when I said flipped, I was thinking like a mirror-image, which they do in filming sometimes and then subsequent photos show a reverse image of what was actually shot. This works so long as there's no visible writing onscreen as the viewer is none the wiser, but I could see how small runes on a sword would be missed. I get now what you mean with the two rune groupings merely being swapped, not actually written backwards.