TLDR: I put 200 names in Tengwar onto t-shirts, available in the RealElvish Store now! In this epic quest, I stumbled upon this: USA’s Social Security Administration’s Top Names Over the Last 100 Years. It’s not perfect, but it’s a starting point. That, plus running across some truly awful attempts
Since the punctuation systems for Tengwar and Cirth are so different from the Latin punctuation that we’re used to, I’ve added a page, accessible through any of the individual phrase pages, that explains how to change or add punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth transliterations of the phrases. It’s very
Check it out in action! The adventure for adding the Tengwar and Cirth to the phrasebooks was a long one, with a lot of setbacks. First, there was the getting the Cirth and Tengwar fonts to work at all. That took multiple tries and Shihali cracking open the lid on
At about 4AM (Montana Time) 4 days ago, the website went down. When I got up, I was getting alerts about insane amounts of activity on the website, so much that the server was slowing down and preventing people from viewing the website. I thought at first that we were
The poor old Quenya Pronunciation Guide hadn’t been updated in about a decade. Now it’s got recordings (thanks to Bailey for R-rolling duty!), Tengwar (thanks to Shihali for fixing those old fonts!), and the fancy new information we learned from Parma Eldalamberon #19 and #22. This is in preparation for
It’s been an exciting couple of days! After years of wrestling with the massive namelists, I’ve finally come up with a solution that I think will work. Give the Name Lists a gander and let me know if you like their new setup! I basically tried to replicate the old,
There are a LOT of table-top gamers among us. My own house gets filled with people playing Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons from Friday afternoon through Sunday night. I may or may not have an Elf-bard named Lennel. All this was on my mind when I was contacted by Wyrmwood,
Wow, you guys are super generous! With these donations, I kept the website running and was able to, you know, eat food. The total donations I received from Paypal and Patreon is $794.68! The donators and the amounts they donated are listed on the Donate to RealElvish page. Not only
In 3 hours, things are going to get trippy in here as I install a new theme. I’ve already moved things around in the menus a lot because of this, made some new directory pages, made a fancy new landing page, so, this should go pretty quickly. That is the
Sorry that I filled all of the subscriber’s inboxes with essays and elvish poetry! I’m moving things around the website, cleaning out some of the old material that is no longer used much, and refocusing the website on the names and phrases! I’ve let this place get kinda sprawling and
