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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirth "a semi‑artificial script, based on real‑life runic alphabets, invented by J. R. R. Tolkien for the constructed languages he devised and used in his works. Cirth is written with a capital letter when referring to the writing system; the letters themselves can be called cirth." The Cirth is not the only runic writing system used by Tolkien in his legendarium. In fact, he devised a great number of runic alphabets, of which only a few others have been published. Some of these are included in the "Appendix on Runes" of The Treason of Isengard (The History of Middle-earth, vol. VII), edited by Christopher Tolkien.[19] According to Tolkien himself, those found in The Hobbit are a form of "English runes" used in lieu of the Dwarvish runes proper.[20] They can be interpreted as an attempt made by Tolkien to adapt the Fuþorc (i.e., the Old English runic alphabet) to the Modern English language.[21]

These runes are basically the same found in Fuþorc, but their sound may change according to their position, just like the letters of the Latin script: the writing mode used by Tolkien is, in this case, mainly orthographic.[22] This means that the system has one rune for each Latin letter, regardless of pronunciation Tolkien devised this runic alphabet in a very early stage of his shaping of Middle-earth. Nevertheless, they are known to us from a slip of paper written by J.R.R. Tolkien, a photocopy of which Christopher Tolkien sent to Paul Nolan Hyde in February 1992. Hyde then published it, together with an extensive analysis, in the 1992 Summer issue of Mythlore, no. 69.[24] The system provides sounds not found in any of the known Elven languages of the First Age, but perhaps it was designed for a variety of languages. However, the consonants seem to be, more or less, the same found in Welsh phonology, a theory supported by the fact that Tolkien was heavily influenced by Welsh when creating Elven languages"

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Well Tolkien himself said he was based on odin.

Odin had many names to various cultures and in some versions the horse did not have eight legs. So unless we have also compared gandulfs mount to the British/Celtic/Finnish/slavic versions of him, I wouldn't rule this out.

Odin definitely had a spear in Norse mythology. I don't recall if he had one in Celtic mythology as well, but he was certainly a wizard in the later Welsh myths so a staff wouldn't be out of the question. The battle of the trees is lifted directly from one of these Welsh myths about their cognate of Woden. The time when it was written down was after they had converted and thus he was a wizard rather than a god in those stories.

Odin may have sacrificed himself to himself to gain the secret of the runes, but once he did he gave them to people, free of charge.

The disguise part of Odin, was that he was dressed like any other old man Yes he could shift shapes, but he too actually was an old man(or at least that is how the Norse depicted him). When he went in disguise, wearing his broad brimmed hat, it just meant he left the clothing and trapping of kingship behind him. And when he did, he looked a lot like how gandulf is depicted.