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...
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...
