A term meaning 'rune-rows', and used for a system of runes, and especially Daeron's original Certhas Daeron. It is also used in adapted form as Angerthas ('long rune-rows') to describe the systems that developed from Daeron's initial certhas, especially the Angerthas Daeron and the Angerthas Moria.
The word certhas is distinct in meaning from the plural cirth, which refers to a group of individual runes (or, when capitalised, the concept of runes in general). A certhas, on the other hand, refers to a particular systematic runic alphabet.
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We are not given a precise date for Daeron's invention of the first certhas. The event is mentioned in The Grey Annals (in volume XI of The History of Middle-earth), but the dating there is not exact. Based on that source, we can say that the Certhas Daeron originated sometime after the Valian Year 1350, but long before the Return of the Noldor. This would place the first certhas deep in the long starlit ages of Middle-earth, about 1,400 solar years before the Moon and Sun rose for the first time.
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