“ph” seems like a good start, seeing as it’s pretty much always an “f”.
Dwarfs → Dwarves is an example of a word sort of being changed in order to be more consistent. Though in this case Tolkien had to continuously make sure that editors didn’t “fix” it. And to be honest it sort of introduced an extra spelling, rather than fixing the current one…
“ph” seems like a good start, seeing as it’s pretty much always an “f”.
Dwarfs → Dwarves is an example of a word sort of being changed in order to be more consistent. Though in this case Tolkien had to continuously make sure that editors didn’t “fix” it. And to be honest it sort of introduced an extra spelling, rather than fixing the current one…