The reasons for getting an Elvish tattoo are many. It marks us to fellow fans. It’s a way to write a secret message on your skin for others who can read it. It proves to the world that you love Tolkien’s works. And most of all, it looks really cool!
Let’s face it. The game developers could really have used a Tolkien-language expert on their staff. I’m going to explain how they messed up, and fix it for them. First off, let’s go back to the 90’s, when Tolkien-language fans were trying to find ways to write in Tengwar on
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English: Doing good may cause evil Literal Translation: Doing good may cause evil Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya, Gondorian-Sindarin, Adúnaic, and Black Speech: aE7R t~C7E aR 1ÍE7R 5#a|E Pronunciation Guides Citation: PE22/154 Language(s): QuenyaThe language of the Noldorin and Vanyarin
English: Don’t kill the Tad-dails. The dwarves will be angry will us, because Tad-dails are dwarves. Literal Translation: Don’t kill the bipeds. Bipeds are Dwarves, and the Dwarves will rage at us. Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: c4ð ,cRð
English: Don’t kill the Tad-dails. The dwarves will be angry will us, because Tad-dails are dwarves. Literal Translation: Don’t kill the bipeds. Bipeds are Dwarves, and the Dwarves will rage at us. Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: c4ð ,cRð
“Write English with Tengwar” Kindle E-book Pre-order The release date is 02/02/2020 (because it’s a palindrome and I couldn’t resist). The price is $2.99 which is as cheap as I was allowed to make it. To help this book succeed, spread the word! Share the link to the pre-order to
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
So, this whole “having an online store” thing is still pretty new to me, and I’m learning a lot as I go along! The first major thing that I’ve learned is that trying to maintain the “200 most popular names in the last century on t-shirts” was a truly terrible
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