r/Tengwar

I am hoping to get this tengwar tattooed as part of a memorial tattoo. Are there any changes that I should make, or does this tecendil output look correct? Also, have I selected the correct mode/font? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Recently I'm enjoying combining aspects of spelling English in Tengwar in a way that are in line with what Tolkien wrote or showed us but were never used by him in this precise combination.

Can you decipher what I've written, and what are your thoughts about the spelling?

Hopefully this is the correct sub. I forgot the quote, though I’m pretty sure it’s something Gandalf told Frodo in Moria.

Howdy y’all. I named my cat Mithwen, which should be Sindarin roughly for Grey/Silver Maiden. I found a Tengwar website and I’d like to know how accurate the pictured script is for my kitties name. Can anyone help? Thanks!

I don’t know a whole lot about lord of the rings but I’m making a piece for my boyfriend who is a huge fan. I wanted to put this scripture in it but I want to be sure it’s a correct translation

I’m hoping someone can translate this phrase for a back tattoo. I know what it *should* be but I’m wanting to double check it. Thanks!

Hopefully it's a transcription of 'what is now proved was once only imagined' in Tengwar. It’s for a tattoo and I’d like to check before committing. Thank you.

Or at least what it's supposed to say. I only just started learning tengwar

Sorry if this is the wrong sub, I was digging on my farm and found this note between two rocks? I’m very curious as to what it says

Hello all! I am a person with little to no prior knowledge in calligraphy or language-learning, as well as a person who only got into the LotR about a month ago. Anyway!

I recently found myself offline for a while (got electrocuted in the shower and the ER didn't have public wifi) so with my scant supplies I decided to decode the Tengwar alphabet based purely off of the Ring inscription included in the FotR book. I haven't cross-checked this with anything, so I decided to come to the experts! From a quick Google I think this is the Beleriand mode.

First picture is the actual sheet where I deciphered it; second is the reference sheet I made. Third is a fun bonus watercolor I did a couple of days before (that's why the As are stars, the font is disgustingly small in the books.) I know the L is fucked, that was the last one I figured out and it stumped me. Just cemented in my mind that Tolkien was a linguistic genius.

Feel free to yell at me/give constructive criticism/cower at my evident natural linguistic prowess, whichever one my horrible Tengwar inspires in you.

Hello to all German speakers! This is my first attempt at something longer. I wrote the first few sentences of the german translation of the ainulindale. I learned the German Mode by Alexander Körschgen, on which the tecendil german mode is based.

I hope you can read it and I am very interested in your suggestions.

Hey everyone, Im carving from swords (Anduril and Hadhafang) and want to gets an accurate script for both.

For Hadhafang. Not sure any of the transcribers show it correctly

"aen estar Hadhafang i chathol hen, thand arod dan i thang an i arwen"

Glǽmscribe in Sindarin/Tengwar mode in Tenwar Telcontar OTF typeface gives the attached.

For Anduril

Sindarin/Cirith in Cirith Erebor doesnt give characters that match this https://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie/anduril_cirth.jpg

Am I using the wrong mode?

"Anar Nányë Andúril i né Narsil i macil Elendilo. Lercuvanten i móli Mordórëo. Isil"

Thanks for any help!

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I decided to finally experiment with adding some slant and curl to the hand. Changed my mind halfway through about what to do with the vowel carrier.

The text is tricky. It shifts on you. At the end there it changed from "art historians" to "art experts" after I'd finished writing it :(

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>I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic—with its vast fossil-hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice-cap—and I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aërial, will count in my favour; for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures; notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.

Hi! This is supposed to say Calivanda meaning 'Bright Oath. Just checking this is correct?

Thank you 😁

Ever since DTS/10 it seemed obvious that extended stem letters could have the exact same meaning as stop letters with the comma shaped diacritic that's called "thinnas" in Beleriandic - in the short mode of that letter extended quesse/hwesta was used to transcribe the CH in "Christmas", but in full mode the tehta was used under regular quesse.

So when writing Khuzdûl I always considered both methods to be available and I also suggested as much.

But now I think I was probably mistaken...

In 'Feanorian B' we learn that in original use in the Primary Mode extended stems marked aspiration, but the subscript comma shaped tehta is basically a tiny silme nuquerna and marks voicelessness.

So in the orthographic spelling of English apparently both can be used for cases like "CHristmas" only because both aspiration and voicelessness are often transcribed into Latin letters by means of appending -h

The only explicit reference to both together I am aware of is in PE/23:33-34, where Tolkien says that extended stems are occasionally found for th = [t], ch = [k], and ph, but that usually the tehta in question is used for "silent h" that does not modify the sound.

But this is specifically in reference to orthographic English full writing - the Dwarvish -h DOES modify the sound, and in general discussion of Numenian spelling the tehta is only ever referenced as a voicelessness marker.

So: Khuzdûl aspirated stops should absolutely be spelt with extended stems, not with *thinnas*, I would say.

Or am I missing something, perhaps?

Please let me know your opinions.