Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Want to learn Elvish?

Well, I don't know the language, but I can write English in Tengwar (Elvish letters)! (JRR Tolkien made an entire Elvish language, did you know?) I taught myself, peicing together snippets I found in various places. Most likely I have it all wrong, but... it looks impressive! These are the pages from my notebooks where I wrote notes on it. The first page shows first the Elvish letter, then the symbol that I think symoblizes the sound, then an example of how that sound is used in a word, then the name of the Elvish letter. It has only consonants on it.

The second page has more notes, and the vowels. I am still confused on those, but I use the symbols that say "typically these" by it, and I do not do the "y", as I write more phonetically.
Page three has more notes, esp. explaining that English can be written in Tengwar phonetically (based on sounds, like shorthand) and letter-by-letter (which is generally more confusing to write but easier to read).

These are two visual aids I made, to help you see how the letters fit together. The top one is Sindarin mode (which I use the most) and the bottom is Quenya. You cut out the peices, and arrange them into words. It helps you see how the vowels and consonants fit together.












2 comments:

  1. I gave up on actually trying to learn elvish.. I used to be able to slowly read it if it was just english with sindarian symbols.. but I kinda forgot.. I do know dwarf runes quite well though :)

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  2. Yeah, it takes alot to read it... but it looks impressive when written! (it also lets people know I am a big Tolkien fan, lol) I don't know anything about the dwarfish (dwarvish?) runes, though.

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