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 ...
Hello Mariana and to all others listening at this eGroup I'm a new member too. I subscribed this eGroup two months ago, but no mails were written during this...
Aiya! Today I've finished a Russian translation of Helge Fauskanger's article about Entish. You may look it at http://drauger.chat.ru/entish.htm. Best regards,...
Aiya! Today I have finished my Russian translation of Helge Fauskanger's article about Black Speech and have put it on my site. I invite everybodu to look it....
... Sounds like a glyph-level distinction. Are there any cases where the difference actually *makes* a difference to plaintext interpretation? That is the...
Fellow Elfscribes, Here are my first comments on Michael Everson's proposal to encode the Tengwar in Unicode. 1. "compare Quenya [...] nelde ‘three’, [...]...
I'd be grateful for any comment. http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/cirth.pdf Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta ** http://www.egt.ie 15 Port...
Can anyone supply me with a photocopy or PDF of the Quettar publication(s) which described the digits? Måns says there was a special publication, but I heard...
... There is a PostScript file that summarizes the article at the TolkLang web page <http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/misc/local/TolkLang>. ... Yes, that is correct. I...
On the Elfscript site I posted links to the discussion documents, for your collective convenience. Thanks for Måns and John for their recent comments. Michael...
Spelling errors in some of the examples have been corrected at http://www.egt.ie/standards/iso10646/pdf/tengwar.pdf Michael Everson ** Everson Gunn Teoranta...
Hello everyone! Inspired by Angasules posting about a tengwar mode for Norwegian I think I'll share some thoughts on how to write vowels in Swedish. Maybe this...
Well, here I go again with another attempt at a norwegian mode, this time after talking with some native speakers (I love Norway!!). First, the vowels, as far...
I've been busy looking for a new day job, so I only just noticed this thread, but the elfscript list has been active for a couple of weeks now - almost no ...
I made a list of the norwegian sounds I know, I hope I haven't missed too many ;) Consonants: t, d, p, b, f, v, kj, skj, j, k, g, h, n, m, r, s Is 'rs' a...
Elen sila lumenn omentielvo, This is the new mailing list suggested on elfling for discussion of JRR Tolkien's orthographies and scripts, such as Tengwar and...
