Please forgive the apparent spam. I am passing this message to all Yahoo Groups lists I am subscribed to. ... The problem is probably with Yahoo Groups, not...
About a month and a half ago, Ryszard Derdzinski, the site owner of Gwaith-i-Pheddain, asked me if he could publish some of my tengwar calligraphy. I did six...
... I think that apart from the existence of the Mode of Beleriand itself there at least three indicators: 1) The conventions for writing Quenya. There is no...
These are the words I believe should begin with 'aha': hanu = male haran = king harma = treasure harwë = treasury harya- = to possess haryon = pribce hellë =...
Lisa Star deithant: I personally would stick to the mode that Tolkien used on the title page of LotR, because it is most widely available, and is actually for...
Hello, Here is a list of all difficulties and alternatives I've found in writing Quenya with the tengwar (thanks to Måns Björkman for his help). Could you ...
Oui j'ai vu... très intéressant surtout les notes sur l'évolution des sons... Et la page avec les erreurs de traduction du SDA est très instructive :) But...
... **You are right about <lambe> + <umbar> for the combination -lv-, and you would get -lb-. Tolkien said that for -lv- not -lw-. The example _omentielvo_ is...
It seems that quite many people would like to create simple Tengwar inscriptions with a font, even though they haven't studied the script itself. I've been...
A propos, Jérémie, est-ce que tu as vu http://www.multimania.com/lafee/quenya_tengwar.html ? C'est une explication, écrite en français, d'utiliser les...
I've been haunting around this list for a bit now, but I must confess that I don't know either of Tolkien's elvish languages! I can write in tengwar just...
I have seen about five different systems for transcribing French! Two full writing modes, two tehta modes with vowel tehtar over the following consonant...
Im not really happy with most of the tengwar modes for the english language Ive seen so far. (The best I knew is a very strange one, its sample 6b -if Im not...
From time to time people ask me how to use the tengwar. I wish I could give them a simple answer -- but there isn't. So I'm trying to create a set of practical...
This is for Izegrim...nederlands-tengwar as devised by Lodewijk van Roosendaal. Sorry about the length of this post! a = vilya aa = vilya + double bar (line...
I know in Quenya so far I have seen, all are left to right, which for us
in the west is normal, but in ancient days it was not all that easy, for
a few basic...
... I agree that [h] and [x] were probably allophones at all stages of Quenya's development, though one might get the impression, from the wording in Appendix...
Mellyn, My server provider, Passagen, has temporarily disabled ZIP files on the server. This means that all file downloads from Amanye Tenceli are presently...
Circumflex and like, I know in Arabic and Hebrew they use them, but
mostly only to show vowels for those learning the lingo, or for lingos
that are not...
I am CC:ing this message to ElfScript, where it might be found interesting. ... Ah! Nice point. However, I do not agree that "It look as if oore should not...
I wonder if their is a form for Arabic? I love the look of the various
Arabic scripts, as well as Tibetan/Uighur/Mongolian.
Mike
-- If you love humor of an...
(I hope Daniel won't mind me forwarding this letter to ElfScript too.) ... I agree with you: most evidence seems to suggest that spelling in the Third Age was...
Oddly looks a bit like examples I have seen of Sanskrit or like writing
form. Some of the characters that is, but also some other forms, I have
seen them...
Is there not a chart of the vowel and consonant placement for Dutch,
namely the one that shows where they are in the mouth.
It can help in placing of the...
... I think Melroch's interpretation must be essentially correct. But I miss the <halla>, which would incidentally require a way of distinguishing [h] and [x]...
hello Id be intrested if anybody uses tengwar modes (or orthographies, as you prefer) without a space between the words. I do so, mostly for Spanish and some...
Greetings! My name is Per Lindberg. I have been a tengwar fan since, oh, 1970 or so, but it is only in recent years I have had the means to study Tolkien's...
There are ents about! (a common saying in Middle-earth) ... **I will, but you had better be able to explain yourself to Jan Boom! (a well known Dutch Tolkien...
Hello people, Allow me to introduce myself: My name is John, born 1979,but I go by the alias of 'Izegrim'. I am a Dutch Tolkien-enthousiast, and about a month...
