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...
Sarmendili, My Tengwar font Tengwar Parmaite is now available for downloading from the web site _Amanye Tenceli_ ( http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at ). Comments...
Hello all! I am new to this forum but one thing I think is missing from the tolkienic languages is a true cursive script. I think that while the formal ...
I notice with great interest that Elfconner Arden R. Smith sometimes appears on this list, sharing his considerable insight on Tolkien's writing systems (no,...
... I have scrutinise the page of Mazarbul. Apparently the last word of the line 14th is _is_ and is written with an esse, that is phonetically _iz_ (could ...
I have been trying to reconstruct the "Mode of Dale" explicitated in the page nº ii of the Book of Mazarbul. Cf. what C. Tolkien wrote in _Pictures_ : "the...
Greetings, I'm not sure if what I'm writing is plainly wrong, so first of all I beg your pardon. In the Book pages made by Tolkien there's and under-bar used...
... Yes, I've looked in several places and also can't find any clear statements as to what variation of Cirth runes the Orcs might have used. The three most...
Hi All, This message was recently passed to me, but I wasn't ... I know that there are references to the Orcs having objects marked with some sort of runes,...
I was reading old posts and saw a brief exchange about the need for the circumflex in the Unicode proposal. Though Professor Tolkien states that the circumflex...
Suilaid, mellyn nîn! I have coined a word in Sindarin, and I would appreciate the opinion of those of you more versed in the 'noble tongue' than I. My...
Once upon a time, I had a copy of "The Road Goes Ever On," and I was happy. Then an orc-minded individual decided he coveted it, and now I no longer possessed...
... Those words are written with sule, yes, at least that's the normal usage AFAIK, I guess the reason silme is used in namarie it's because of (1) or because...
Near the bottom of the Tengwar table in Appendix E to _The Lord of the Rings_, there is an odd-looking tengwa which resembles a "d" with a tail. The text names...
MÃ¥ns, it does indeed seem logical that the Edain in Minas Tirith may have written in Sindarin with a mode based on Westron. And the fact that it was written...
... Hello Daniel! Personally I think that both the full modes and the "tehta modes" have their benefits, but like you I usually prefer writing with the tehta...
Thanks for your input, erilaz! Since the only significant sample of a tehtar mode of Sindarin written by Tolkien is the King's Letter Version III, that is the...
... It would depend on the mode. In a mode in which téma IV represents a labiovelar series, vilya would be the best bet. Unque is also an option, since...
Mae govannen, mellyn! I'm so glad to have found this group. I am very inter= ested in the Tolkienian writing systems and have been since high school. (IN= ...
I just recently started writing in tengwar, and I'm totally fascinated by it. But I haven't been able to find a whole lot of information on some of its finer...
Aiya ilyar! Well, as has been said, this list has been rather quiet these past few months. I have myself been busy with various un-ElfScriptly matters ...
Lisa Star wrote (>) in reply to me (>>) ... I agree we are probably getting too much off-topic here, and perhaps we should consider moving this discussion...
... I like the quenya mode of the tengwar (with tehtar) best, somehow when I see quanta sarme I feel something is lacking, of course that might be because I...
... **yes, you'll be receiving this issue, too, because I used one of your fonts for something, I think in the article about the copyrighability of alphabets ...
