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Fiona J.

Hello! I'm your friendly neighborhood linguist! I grew up on a small sheep and horse ranch in Montana, but now I'm a city-slicker and a college grad, with a degree in English-Linguistics from the University of Montana. I am the owner and head translator of this website.

KuroNekoCon

I’m at KuroNekoCon and having a blast! There is a lot of crossover between Anime nerddom and Elvish nerddom, so I’m getting to chit-chat with a lot of people and nerd out. I love watching people’s eyes light up when they realize they’ve just found another person in the world

GISHing for Tengwar?

Moral of the lesson: This is why you don’t want an inexperienced transcriber doing Tengwar for you. For two days now, I, and Tolkien expert friends of mine, have been bombarded by people doing the GISH scavenger hunt. It’s starting to get old. Mostly because this transcription is truly awful.