English: build a bridge Literal Translation: building a bridge [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 zc,8 Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 `]1[ Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
English: build a fence Literal Translation: building a fence [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 zí0 Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 `]F3 Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
English: build a boat Literal Translation: building a boat [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 Rí@ Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 s]Õ7 Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
English: build a gate Literal Translation: building a gate [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 3bdc% Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 el5]8 Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
English: build a well Literal Translation: building a well [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 J0ba Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 lÕ3lj Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
English: build a building Literal Translation: building a building [mutated to follow the preposition oh] Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth Cirth, used for Woodelven and Doriathren Sindarin: tc9b9 c9c2 Tengwar the Mode of Beleriand, used for Exilic Sindarin: d]7l2 ]2]w Tengwar with vowel-tehtar, used for Quenya,
I had no idea this was going down, but hey look! I was quoted in a wired video about conlangs! That’s my collection of Tolkien books and my voice!
I’m so excited, I’ve been jittering myself into exhaustion. After being asked for so many years to do it, after 9 months and 3 editors and lots of help from you, I have turned your Neo-Sindarin textbook into a real book that you can hold in your hands. Thank you
A PDF version of the article can be found here. It is well-known that in the late 1950s Tolkien made an attempt to revise the cosmology of his imaginary world in order to make it more realistic and scientifically credible than, as he put it, “the Flat Earth and the
I’m not sure if lay-fans have noticed, but something obvious to Tolkien-language scholars is that the Elven languages aren’t being used exactly the same way in the TV show as they were in the Peter Jackson movies, and the languages themselves are slightly different too. There are a few things