The Origin of Man
The most common and incorrect assumption about Men is that Men of Arda are just like us. Like the Elves, their appearance and strength is based upon their genealogical past….
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From Book to Movie
…I can write all of the informative essays I want, but they can’t replace the actual books. You should read the books to know about them. It’s common sense. What…
Guide for Adding Punctuation to the Tengwar and Cirth
…all there is is pauses indicated by dots. The more dots, the stronger the pause. These pauses are also completely relative within a document. The most common uses are: No…
Basics of Tengwar for Tattoo Seekers
…or tragic errors can result. You’ll see an all too common example later on in this article. Using Tecendil is fine for getting an idea of what it’ll look like,…
Sarah in Elvish
…are suitable for personal names because they are adjectives added too common name endings. Brethil is more like a Father Name. Let’s add some adjectives to Hiril and Heryn to…
John in Elvish
…like Jeanne, Joann, and Ivana. Yohanan comes from a common phrase, “YHWH has been generous/gracious/merciful.” Basically, an ancient “#soblessed.” The “Yo” part comes from an ancient reading of the Tetragrammaton…
Melissa in Elvish
…here: Find a poetic way to translate it, like “honey bug.” Make a new word for Sindarin based on Common Eldarin *glis+rŏ. Give up. If you prefer to not go…
Christopher in Elvish
…a masculine agental suffix and treated it like an ancient Common Eldarin root word. If we start in the same place for the Sindarin version we get: kʰrīstō > kʰristō…
Erin in Elvish
…names (plural of iand, meaning “expanse”). Losing syllables by cutting out a vowel is pretty common in Sindarin, so going from Íwer to Iwr– isn’t impossible. Now that we’ve chosen…
Charles in Elvish
…that a Ceorl is a commoner who isn’t a slave or a servant, but not nobility either. The Frankish kings probably took this as a name to connect to the…