Please read ONLY if you are prepared to delve very deep into the world of LEGO nerdiness.

So we're currently in the midst of preparing our D&D characters for Jeramy's upcoming D&D game.  Of course, being a LEGO club, we're using LEGO for not only our characters and their weapons and gear, but also all of the landscaping and buildings.  As if that wasn't nerdy enough, I decided to learn the runic alphabet that dwarves would use, since my D&D character is a dwarf.  While D&D dwarves are fictional, the runic alphabet is/was real.  It's called "Futhark," because that's what the first 6 letters in the runic alphabet spell:



The Futhark alphabet is what people from the Scandinavian region of Europe would've used to write with during the Middle Ages.  Enter the 1X2 printed tile from the 3rd edition of Hogwarts Castle:


I'm not sure why this tile that's printed with Futhark characters comes in a Harry Potter set instead of a Vikings set, but we can worry about that later.

You can see that the gold runes are characters from the Futhark alphabet.  Ever since I was a little kid, I thought that runic characters looked cool, hence it's no surprise that I liked this printed tile and put it on my Bricklink wanted list.  However, until recently I had never learned the runes' phonetic equivalents.

Today I was browsing a BL store and saw this tile.  I had seen pictures of this tile before, but today was the first time that I had seen it since my eyes had been opened.  The gold letters say "LEGO".  But wait—that's not all!  Do you see that there are also lines of tiny runes along the top and bottom of the tile?  They're quite small, but you can just make out that they say "Leg Godt" (Danish for "Play Well"; the words that Ole Christiansen contracted to form the word "LEGO") and "Play Well" (in english).  That is SOOOOO COOL!!!  Whoever worked at LEGO and was in charge of making this printed tile actually went to the trouble of translating LEGO's name and motto into Futhark runes.

If you're shaking your head right now and think it's ridiculous that I think this is totally sweet, then you're totally lame.  This is SO super cool, whether you think it is or not.