teithant Henry Quinn ... it fully, to recognise the symbols and write them without a reference. Even though my hand writing sucks, I enjoy writing tengwar. My...
Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Feb 1, 2002 8:34 am
597
Aye 'tis sad but true. Henry ... From: Gildor Inglorion To: elfscript@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [elfscript] Teng...
Henry Quinn
henry@...
Feb 1, 2002 8:52 am
598
... rummaged thru all the volumes of HoME that I possess (or at least the ones that I can locate right now...) without finding it. Well, CJRT decided to cut...
Helge K. Fauskanger
helge.fauskanger@...
Feb 2, 2002 1:20 am
599
I have used tengscribe but It IS quite confusing I don't get it either.It keeps popping numbers at me. ... From: "ladyclaris" <dcrawford8@...> To:...
Kimberly
hummer56@...
Feb 4, 2002 6:23 am
600
Hi all, I have, perhaps foolishly, agreed to help a friend find an elvish translation for a tattoo. (Yes, another one - at this rate there will be more elvish...
It's not sad, it's kind of cool. You can communicate on the web in
tengwar if you choose; not by scanning in drawings, but typing &
encoding the font in your...
teithant Kimberly ... keeps popping numbers at me. * i guess you havent installed the fonts correctly ... Do You Yahoo!? ÁðïêôÞóôå ôçí äùñåÜí...
Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Feb 4, 2002 10:32 pm
603
teithant assassincat ... translation for a tattoo. (Yes, another one - at this rate there will be more elvish inscriptions on bodies than in books.) At any ...
Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Feb 4, 2002 11:32 pm
604
In the attested Sindarin tehta mode, 'uir' is written as 'anna' with the 'u' curl above it followed by 'óre'. As for Quenya 'oiale' ... yes, it's longer. but...
Yap yap yap. This is no, and I qoute "hogwash, and a weird kind of superiority trip" it is my experience. The first time I started learning Tengwar was about a...
Henry Quinn
henry@...
Feb 5, 2002 6:51 am
606
... Actually, I simply hadn't come across the Quenya translation yet... but thank you, I'll be happy to give her all the available options. Now, given that I...
... with the ... Thank you very much for the clarification! It's very good of you all to act as foils and editors for we stumbling newbies, lost amidst the...
teithant assassincat ... but thank you, I'll be happy to give her all the available options. * if you have read lotr and Namaarie, you have :) ("...Calaciryo...
Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Feb 5, 2002 10:19 am
609
... miiri oiale") Ah, of course! How foolish, knew I should've had that eidetic memory installed... ;) ... Why thank you! And watch me grin goofily in...
Hello Everyone! As you can guess I'm new to this group. I've been a huge fan of LotR for years, but did not realise how much there was on the web about it....
teithant Jennifer Pattinson ... consonants are transcribed phonetically, but I'm confused about the vowels. Do we go with spelling? Or do we try to go by...
Gildor Inglorion
elfiness@...
Feb 6, 2002 10:01 am
612
Teithant Jennifer: vowels ... do we go with spel- ling? Or do we try to go by sound? That's a tricky one. If we follow the 'mode' used on the title page of ...
So far, I have only discovered what looks like just one misprint in Parma 13. On page 71 the 3rd sarat (after k, ng) should be translitterated _h_, not _hw_...
Made some modifications, and it does not always follow the
English I speak, but ..
p p=pit
b b=ball
t t=tag
d d=dip/card
k k/c=kit/character
g g=guard/bag
?...
... It's a little of both. The manuscript originally had "hw", but Tolkien struck through the "w". The deletion, however, isn't obvious unless you're looking...
p p=pit
b b=ball
t t=tag
d d=dip/card
k k/c=kit/character
g g=guard/bag
? u=uh-oh t=hatrack
f f=foot/gh=laugh
v v=vest/dove
th th=through
dh (dh) th=the/their...
Oddly, Wh was originally done as hw in anglo-saxon times.. Only later was it reversed to the current Wh.. English I believe has two W sounds. Voiced and...
Teithant Michael Adams: jh dj=judge, judge/ght = righteous I think you meant 'dge = judge' ... there is no 'dj' in the word. 'ght' = righteous? Really? You...
Yeah.... I just joined, mainly becuase I wanted to learn Elvish, and I figured I could get advice here, sort of like a study group. Like my German, Japanese,...
One thing I try to do when designing a script for a lingo
like English, is does the letters flow. Can it be written by
a person in a hurry, how fast will the...
Thank you for your help. I am starting to realise that learning to write English in Tengwar is going to be a bit harder than I had first thought. I'm at the...
How about replace ae a=bat with æ a=bat þ th=through (it makes it easier to spell say Neanderthal). ð (dh) th=the/their additionally, I think replacing sh...
William G Beazley
beazley@...
Feb 11, 2002 7:43 pm
623
... If your primary interest is in the languages, the Elfling list <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/elfling/> will suit your needs better. We only discuss the...
... _h_, ... just ... obvious ... blurry ... _h_, ... just ... obvious ... Thanks for answering, I didn't know that you were on this ML. I would like to ask...
Hello all! I am fairly new at all of this and I would love help in learning how to write and speak in Elvish!! So please if you don't mind taking the time to...
