Master Rosewood's Ledger

Every journeyman should learn something from each master he serves, and Leoffrith's service to Master Bill Rosewood of the west gate stable in Bree is no exception. As a man of letters, and proud of it, Rosewood has developed and refined a system for tracking the supplies coming in and out of the stable, which cunningly lets him find the current state of anything after consulting only a few lines on the last pages, even telling him what's on its way or overdue, but which does not require him to ever rewrite anything. Leoffrith struggled to understand this, even after help from various people, including Gregwald, Lumina, and finally, Dimheim, who finally figured out the way to get through to him. (Leoffrith never came to understand fractions, and all talk of slices missing from pies only made him hungry and confused, imagining cutting slices out of pennies. What finally worked was to ignore fractions and instead speak of things like buying four bags of dried peas for three pennies, and thus, buying twelve bags taking nine pennies, as three groups of three.)

Drawn in Procreate on an iPad. See the full sized version. Some notes about the composition:

My transliteration into cirth is probably very flawed, particularly with vowels.

Tolkien gave us numerals only for 1-5 (or perhaps 6) and no information about numbering systems. For this, I assume that we have the concept of zero, we use base ten, and we use place value (i.e., that numbers work as in English), and I use these neo-Khuzdûl numerals.

The writing is intentionally cramped and uneven, not beautiful calligraphy, because this is a working document.

Some runes are intentionally crossed out, which has a particular meaning in this ledger system.