Hi! My name is Fiona. My name is pretty darn cool! It’s a simple name – just the word for “White.” Some Latin-speakers slapped an -A at the end to make the masculine name Fionn into a feminine name. This word for “white” had come to be associated with hair
Jennifer, your name is really cool. It’s a cognate of an Irish goddess’s name, known as Findabair. Or Finnabair. Or Fionnabhair. It’s a lovely name with a long history, likely reaching back to Proto-Celtic languages. It’s most likely a compound of “Gwindos – White” and “Sēbarā – Spirit/Fairy/Phantom.” Sindarin Sindarin
When I was looking for a cover artist for “Write English with Tengwar,” I had a very good idea of what I wanted already. The cover would need to be in calligraphy, since this is a book about writing, but it would also have to be artistic, with the flare
Want to write like an elf, but not learn a language? Then this book is for you! Welcome to General Use Tengwar, a mode Tolkien developed for using his Elven letters to write English. He used it to write the text on the title page of The Lord of
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
Hi there! Welcome to the Terms and Conditions Page! Definitions: We/Us/Our/Ours = the translators and writers and web designers of RealElvish.net. I/Me/My/Mine = Fiona Jallings, the head translator and owner of RealElvish.net. You/Your/Yours = user of RealElvish.net’s services. RealElvish.net = these three websites: RealElvish.net, the RealElvish Academy, and the RealElvish
RustyCon is a scifi/fantasy convention that has been running 35 years in the Seattle, Washington area. It from January 12th to the 14th, at the Seattle Airport Marriott hotel and convention center. It looks like it’ll be a lot of fun, so if you’re in the area, stop by and
Another thing that I ended up changing extensively is how the beta-reader system works. The changes I made will hopefully make beta readers feel a lot more secure and have more control over their profiles. Change #1 – Beta Readers are now members of the website. If your application is
Compiled by Lambendil a- pron. aff. it ~ (*3A-/*?A-) -a suff. Subjective ending for plural Neuters ~ (SD/430) aban n. earth <-Abattârik ~ UT/222 ~ (*BAN1) abâr n. strength, endurance, fidelity ~ SD/431 ~ (BAR) < E. BOR Abattârik name. Pillar-of-Earth ~ UT/222 ~ Aban-Târik abrazâ- v. to stand fast
Compiled by Ederchil “-bê“, as. Coined by Thorsten Renk. Obviously derived from Eldarin. “bârâna“, mighty. From “abâr“, power. “banakil“, hobbit. From Westron “banakil“, half-man “bêla“, to brighten. From “Bêl“, bright. “hîm“, ale. From Westron “hîma“, ale. “huznudâ“, to hear. Coined by Thorsten Renk. From “huzun“, ear. “îr“, one. From the