$169, shipping this autumn
two full-on keyboards
. There’s a gray Dwarvish board and a green Elvish counterpart, both of which are available fully assembled and ready to go out of the box. Both retail for $169, with preorders opening today, and Drop hopes to ship both by early October. I’ve been testing out the Elvish version over the last couple of days.
Aside from the keycaps themselves, which feature regular Latin characters alongside Tolkien’s Tengwar and Cirth characters , both keyboards also include small Tolkien-esque illustrations above their arrow clusters contributed by artist Olivia Shetler. But I like the fact that there are no visible logos or obnoxiousbranding. Instead, there are a simple pair of wordmarks visible on the underside of the keyboard but nothing you’re going to see during regular use.
As well as the lettering, the keycaps also include a couple of illustrations on some of the larger keys. On the Elvish model, this includes an Eye of Sauron on the escape key, the broken sword Narsil on the enter key, and a small Ring of Power in place of the left Windows Key. In the box with the keyboard, you also get a couple of extra complimentary brown keycaps, including a spacebar with Elvish lettering .
My one personal gripe with the design is that there are no raised notches on the F and J keys to help your index fingers find them without having to look. Instead, the idea is that they’re slightly more concave than the keys around them to help your fingers feel them out. The design works overall, but in my few days of use, I found myself making more of a conscious effort to feel out the keys than on keyboards with little notches. That might change over a longer period of use, however.
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