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
I have left much of the punctuation off of the phrases, so that you can adjust the phrases to meet your needs. This will cover what can be removed, what can be added, and what to do when combining phrases. Tengwar Punctuation I left the tengwar transliterations without periods if
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
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Who we are Tolkien language scholars and linguists. We run these three websites: Realelvish.net Realelvish Academy Realelvish Store All of them with the goal of spreading the use of Tolkien-language scholarship. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Store Data While you visit our site, we’ll track:
Today the livestream is cancelled because Youtube says I can’t and I don’t know how or why or what’s going on… anyways. I am moving my livestreams back to 4-4:30 PM in the late afternoon here (Mountain Time). Here is a Time Zone Converter. My work hours got changed, and
Moral of the lesson: This is why you don’t want an inexperienced transcriber doing Tengwar for you. For two days now, I, and Tolkien expert friends of mine, have been bombarded by people doing the GISH scavenger hunt. It’s starting to get old. Mostly because this transcription is truly awful.
So, lately I’ve been getting a lot of tattoo requests, more than I’ve been getting requests for character names or fanfic dialogue. I want to be able to serve you guys more efficiently, so I need to bug you guys for information. I’m also interested in talking to tattoo artists
These are names that are designed for Exiled Noldorin Elves in Middle-earth and Númenórean/Gondorian royalty. For the Númenóreans, if the language of the Sindar was considered a “High” language, then Quenya was even higher. They reserved it for only the highest proclamations and the names of their rulers. No naming