... Certainly. The connection with the Cirth seems a plausible one, although I get the feeling there was some stronger motivation behind this feeling of...
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DDanielA@...
May 19, 2001 9:28 pm
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...
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aurandfillan@...
Jun 6, 2001 5:32 pm
When one looks at the Hindi/Sanskrit script, one sees many parallels with the Tengwar: presentation as a phonetically based grid, not as a linear ABC; the use...
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aurandfillan@...
Jun 6, 2001 5:34 pm
Date Posted: Jun/04/2001 6:28 AM Yes, perhaps a more acurate heading would have been "Devanagari: An Inspiration for Tengwar?". One of my hopes for this thread...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Jun 7, 2001 2:24 pm
... This is an intriguing question, but one which I don't think we can fully answer. An early version of the Tengwar is exemplified in a drawing made 1925 for...
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Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Jun 7, 2001 3:18 pm
... Tengwar? It has often been suggested that the idea of expressing vowels with diacritical marks was based on Hebrew writing. Hebrew is a language (and ...
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jonathan wust
choni@...
Jun 8, 2001 2:54 pm
<helge.fauskanger@...> ... In J. Allan: "An Introduction to Elvish", there is given a script which has even a lot more coincidences with the tengwar: a...
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DDanielA@...
Jun 8, 2001 5:47 pm
I've always thought that the tengwar bear a resemblance to the Syriac script. It's more cursive in appearance than Hebrew, but not not to the same extent as...
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John Cowan
jcowan@...
Jul 23, 2001 6:52 pm
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...
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DDanielA@...
Jul 23, 2001 9:48 pm
Another easy solution is to get an additional e-mail account at hotmail.com. It's free and it's easy. I noticed I was missing a number of Elfling posts at my...
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DDanielA@...
Jul 23, 2001 9:51 pm
Another easy solution is to get an additional e-mail account at hotmail.com. It's free and it's easy. I noticed I was missing a number of Elfling posts at my...
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Dan Smith
fontmaster.geo@...
Jul 25, 2001 2:06 am
I was poking around www.theonering.net and found the following 13 page essay on the alphabets of Middle-earth. It is a 402KB PDF, and I think it is worth a...
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Lola Lee
lola@...
Jul 25, 2001 6:42 pm
... page ... think it ... Any chance you can somehow make the fonts available on Mac platform? I have ATM which is supposed to be able to read .ttf fonts; I...
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Angasule
angasule@...
Jul 26, 2001 3:12 pm
I'm writing in a hurry, so forgive any mistakes :) Reading Letters I ran across one addressed to Hugh Brogan (#118) which had text in runes, tengwar with tehta...
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vicentin@...
Jul 26, 2001 3:16 pm
... Well, That article is a bit outdated. TengTeX 1.10 has already been release on the 22th of September 2000 (and yes, it includes a new tengwar fonts...
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Lola Lee
lola@...
Jul 26, 2001 3:20 pm
About my question as to whether you would supply a Mac version in the future, never mind! I did some searching and found TTConverter, and also the font tools...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Jul 26, 2001 5:11 pm
... To my knowledge this tehta occurs only here. It has often been assumed that this is an allograph of the tehta that occurs on the title-page of _The Lord of...
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Angasule
angasule@...
Jul 26, 2001 5:26 pm
... I don't have either A&I or LotR at this time (I lent LotR to a friend I'm trying to 'convert', A&I I can't afford yet!). I'll check on the LotR example...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Jul 26, 2001 7:15 pm
... OK, this is the situation: Letter #118 (in "very happy") shape: 'breve' transcription: <y> sound: [i] LotR title-page (in "by") shape: V transcription: <y>...
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Dan Smith
fontmaster.geo@...
Jul 28, 2001 3:44 pm
... Sorry. My font programs can create only Windows fonts....
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DDanielA@...
Aug 8, 2001 3:41 pm
Måns Björkman deithant: Letter #118 (in "very happy") shape: 'breve' transcription: <y> sound: [i] LotR title-page (in "by") shape: V transcription: <y> ...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Aug 12, 2001 8:57 am
... In my copies of The Lord of the Rings the y-tehta in "history" is conflated with, and partly obscured by, the previous o-tehta, and to me it looks more...
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DDanielA@...
Aug 13, 2001 6:37 am
Måns Björkman deithant: DDanielA@... wrote: Please allow me to add one more: LotR title-page (in "history") shape: V transcription: <y> sound : [i] In...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Aug 13, 2001 12:19 pm
... Intriguing! Which edition is it, more precisely? Would it be possible to acquire a scan of this reproduction? (I think that would be a clear case of fair...
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DDanielA@...
Aug 16, 2001 12:50 am
Måns Björkman deithant: Intriguing! Which edition is it, more precisely? Would it be possible to acquire a scan of this reproduction? It is a...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Aug 18, 2001 9:46 am
... Both my HarperCollins editions (1991 one-volume hardback and 1997 3-volume paperback) seem to agree with your three-volume Houghton-Mifflin edition: the...
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Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Aug 23, 2001 6:32 pm
I am making some updates in Quenta Eldatencelion :) I am planning to put examples for each mode... doing that, I realised that Certhas Daeron was used for Old ...
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D. Daniel Andriës
uialdil@...
Aug 23, 2001 8:19 pm
... It is my understanding that these these oldest cirth were not called the Certhas Daeron. App. E states "The Certhas Daeron was originally devised to ...
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kedarnath_r@...
Aug 23, 2001 8:57 pm
Hi, Kedar here! I want to learn the Tengwar and speak in it but I am not able to find a suitable site for it. Can anybody help me out with it? Kedar...
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DDanielA@...
Aug 23, 2001 9:34 pm
Mae govannen, Kedar! In my opinion, Måns Björkman's site, 'Amanye Tenceli', is the best tengwar site on the web. Måns is also a member of this list. Visit...
