... Well, That article is a bit outdated.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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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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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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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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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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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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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@...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
May 1, 2001 10:15 am
... 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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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 30, 2001 11:04 am
Måns Björkman wrote: [snip] ... I would expect the people of that opinion, whoever they were, to be accustomed to writing Sindarin with Cirth, and hence to...
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DDanielA@...
Apr 25, 2001 8:49 pm
Måns Björkman wrote: ...but it's possible they would refrain from makng an ómatehta- mode for Sindarin. That may very well be true of the Noldor, but the...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Apr 25, 2001 8:00 pm
... No, but it's possible they would refrain from making an ómatehta-mode for Sindarin. According to "From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D" (Vinyar Tengwar #39),...
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BP Jonsson
bpj@...
Apr 25, 2001 6:40 pm
... 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...
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DDanielA@...
Apr 23, 2001 5:41 pm
Okay, here's some of my reasoning. We know that there exists at least one tehta mode used to represent Sindarin, and that it was used by the Edain in Gondor,...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Apr 23, 2001 1:39 pm
... I don't think there necessarily had to be such a mode although, of course, it is far from impossible. It would probably not be used by peoples who believed...
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gildir_1@...
Apr 23, 2001 10:32 am
... Yes, there might exist a sindarin tehta mode different from the one used in KL-III (DTS 49), using series III for the calmatéma like the Mode of...
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D. Daniel Andriës
DDanielA@...
Apr 20, 2001 5:51 pm
... y influenced by a Mannish mode...Westron or Adûnaic...as Måns pointed out), = series IV was used as the 'calmatéma'. There is, however, most probably an...
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gildir_1@...
Apr 17, 2001 2:57 pm
... Well, that depends on many things, such as if you want the tengwar spelling of quenya words to reflect etymology, or not. As Danny says, this is perhaps a...
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gildir_1@...
Apr 17, 2001 2:32 pm
... ...and DTS 18 (Elvish Script Sample III) is even longer, I think. (see http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/mdtci.html#DTS18) Suilad! Gildir...
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DDanielA@...
Apr 17, 2001 6:58 am
These are the words I believe should begin with 'aha': hanu = male haran = king harma = treasure harwë = treasury harya- = to possess haryon = pribce hellë =...
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Lisa Star
amlug4@...
Apr 16, 2001 10:06 pm
... <snip long, reasonably clear explanation> ... **I think you are right, and I have never felt that Tolkien's explanation made sense. For one thing, when a...
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Edward J. Kloczko
ejk@...
Apr 16, 2001 2:19 pm
DDanielA@... a écrit: <snip> ... Have a look at LB, p. 299. That tengwar text in English is longer that "Errantry"; or the King's letter. Namárie EJK...
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Jeremie Knusel
elendur@...
Apr 16, 2001 10:07 am
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...
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Mans Bjorkman
mansb@...
Apr 16, 2001 10:05 am
... I do. Without having reread the TolkLang message, I do no doubt that it refers to the article "The Subscript Dot: A New _Tehta_ Usage" by our esteemed...
