--- In elfscript@yahoogroups.com, "xeeniseit <xeeniseit@y...>"
<xeeniseit@y...> wrote:

> In his Swedish mode (which can be found on
> http://forodrim.letsrock.nu/daeron/md_teng_primers.html),

Well, since we have now repossessed our domain forodrim.org,
the temporary forodrim.letsrock.nu should no longer be
advertised. Here's the official addresses:

http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_home.html
http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html

> Gildir suggests a tehta for the Swedish oe-sound (in fact,
> it should be an o-letter with two points on it)
> (the same sound is found in early Sindarin, in French "eu",
> in German, and in many other languages).

> Gildir suggests a doubled e-tehta. I was very surprised when I saw
> that, because I had come to the same solution independently (for a
> German mode we're working on)!
>
> The way to get to that solution is quite obvious: The relation
> between the sounds of e and oe is the same as the one between the
> sounds of i and y. The attested y-tehta is the doubled i-tehta,
> thus the doubled e-tehta is a reasonable representation of the
> oe-sound.

Yes, the principle is "lip rounding doubles the tehta". It's
mentioned in the appendix of the guide, but since it is in
Swedish, I guess not everyone have spotted that.

To be perfectly honest, the principle was first suggested by
our guild member Findegil, Björn Fromén.

> Am I right in assuming that there's no attested oe-tehta?

Not that I know of.

Suilaid o Mellonath Daeron,
Gildir, Per Lindberg