#tengwar — Public Fediverse posts

Having Spritz with @e_kloczko who is back in #Amsterdam to finish his #Tengwar sans serif typeface.
Swag: #BrutalTypes T-Shirt and Boot Boyz Biz cap.

One of Tolkien's calligraphy. He wrote a part of the One Ring poem in English using the Tengwar in a "full phonetic English mode".

A "full mode" of the tengwar is a mode with tengwar used both for consonants and vowels. Like on the Doors of Moria.

Some common English words are shortened: 'of' and 'the', written with an extended tengwa.

Tolkien made 3 mistakes.

#tolkien #tengwar #oneringpoem

The Elvish numerals.

#tolkien #tengwar

The Dwarven or Rúmilian numerals.
Above Tolkien's manuscript. Below my interpretation in Tengwar Grotesk Medium.

#tengwar #tolkien #elvishtypography

Regarding the inner history of the Tengwar. Tolkien decided that it was not the first writing system of the Elves of Eldamar but the second. The first script was called "Alphabet of Rúmil" and it had numerals of Rúmil.
Tolkien explained that the Alphabet of Rúmil was not used in Middle-earth. But that does not means it was unknown. The Dwarves used the numerals of Rúmil and passed that habit to the Hobbits.
These numerals of Rúmil will be the "Oldstyle Figures" in my Tengwar Fonts.

#tengwar

Two weeks ago, I published a figure containing a mistake. I have updated my font and made a new figure.

Tolkien was not fond of the alphabetic English modes. He wrote next to one such mode: "The point of the alphabet disappears. The following is a possible usage, however."

3 such modes have been published so far. Each will have a dedicated Font file (probably named English-A Tengwar Alphabetic, English-B Tengwar Alphabetic, English-C Tengwar Alphabetic).

#tolkien #tengwar

This is from the Font "Tengwar Grotesk" that I am developing and designing.

This is Tolkien's Elvish (tengwar) numeral system.

I find the use of many dots rather ugly. I do not see any easy solution.
The dots of the duodecimal system are set on different line making the eye go up and down.

Using the dots is best left to only when absolutely necessary and instead add the lines over or under the number looks better, in my view.

What do you think? Any advice?

#tolkien #tengwar #duodecimal

The Fëanorian numerals. I published a few days ago Tolkien's manuscript showing them. https://typo.social/@e_kloczko/115230262821787670

Please, I need comments! 😎 🙏

— Oh! it's super but Y.
— Oh, I see a mistake in Y.

That's what I am here for. 🤔 👍 🤓

And don't tell it is perfect! 😜 Even if I spent like 2 weeks on these Fëanorian numerals. They are not perfect at all! 😭

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishnumerals

The Fëanorian numerals. I published a few days ago Tolkien's manuscript showing them. https://typo.social/@e_kloczko/115230262821787670

Please, I need comments! 😎 🙏

— Oh! it's super but Y.
— Oh, I see a mistake in Y.

That's what I am here for. 🤔 👍 🤓

And don't tell it is perfect! 😜 Even if I spent like 2 weeks on these Fëanorian numerals. They are not perfect at all! 😭

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishnumerals

The Fëanorian numerals. I published a few days ago Tolkien's manuscript showing them. https://typo.social/@e_kloczko/115230262821787670

Please, I need comments! 😎 🙏

— Oh! it's super but Y.
— Oh, I see a mistake in Y.

That's what I am here for. 🤔 👍 🤓

And don't tell it is perfect! 😜 Even if I spent like 2 weeks on these Fëanorian numerals. They are not perfect at all! 😭

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishnumerals

The Fëanorian numerals. I published a few days ago Tolkien's manuscript showing them. https://typo.social/@e_kloczko/115230262821787670

Please, I need comments! 😎 🙏

— Oh! it's super but Y.
— Oh, I see a mistake in Y.

That's what I am here for. 🤔 👍 🤓

And don't tell it is perfect! 😜 Even if I spent like 2 weeks on these Fëanorian numerals. They are not perfect at all! 😭

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishnumerals

The Fëanorian numerals. I published a few days ago Tolkien's manuscript showing them. https://typo.social/@e_kloczko/115230262821787670

Please, I need comments! 😎 🙏

— Oh! it's super but Y.
— Oh, I see a mistake in Y.

That's what I am here for. 🤔 👍 🤓

And don't tell it is perfect! 😜 Even if I spent like 2 weeks on these Fëanorian numerals. They are not perfect at all! 😭

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishnumerals

I am using the Latin keyboard in making my OpenType Tengwar Font. Unicode will never accept the Tengwar and I do not blame them for that.

The Fëaorian zero exists already (see my previous post) and it has already 3 glyphs (plain, with a dot and with a circle).

How to get the Hobbit's zero then, in a logical an easy way to remember?

You type the word "zero" and apply "standard ligature".

#tengwar #tolkien #zero #opentype

I'm designing the numerals.

The tengwa "formen" next to my new Fëanorian numeral 8 in Tengwar Grotesque Medium.

#tolkien #tengwar

The stylistic alternates of the "mode of Beleriand". I'm developing OpenType Fonts of the Tengwar (the script Tolkien invented).

The tengwa cú is in this mode an alternate of tengwa cí.
The tengwa adew (for "a") can have a square dot or not.
The tengwa idew (for "i") can be without the dot.
The tengwa iau (for i") can be with a tail, looking very much like a Latin j.
The tengwa ydew (written "y" is pronounced like German ü) has 2 shapes.

#tengwar #tolkien

An example of the use of my font with words written by Tolkien at the end of his text explaining the ‘mode of Beleriand’.
Tolkien made a few mistakes (as explained in the notes). My examples stand all correct.

Comments are welcome! I'm still doing the Kerning and the placement of diacritical marks.

#tengwar #tolkien

The previous figure had a few mistakes and two missing tengwar. This figure is corrected and has all the tengwar.
Tolkien's explanation & presentation of the mode of Beleriand and my Tengwar Grotesque Medium.
I have also decided to not include the variant adew with a stroke (unpractical to design with a police without serif like my #Tengwar Grotesque), but instead there is an adew with a dot, a variant also used by Tolkien in the "mode of Beleriand".

So I am developing OpenType Fonts of the Tengwar (the script Tolkien invented).
The stylistic alternates of the "mode of Beleriand". A mode especially used for the Sindarin language.

How to choose the tengwa using QuarkXPress.

The tengwa "a" can have a square dot or not.
The tengwa "i" can be without the dot.
The tengwa "y" (pronounced like the German ü) has 2 shapes.

#tengwar #tolkien #elvishtypography

Tolkien often used the dot with 2 denotations (meanings).

A dot could have a typographical usage (to make the Elvish letter more visible) or a dot could have a "meaning".

In order to help the reader, in my font, the square dot = typographical usage; round dot "meaning".

#tengwar #tolkien #elvishtypography

Tolkien's explanation & presentation of the mode of Beleriand and opposite my font Tengwar Grotesque Medium.

Two tengwar are missing. I'm still working on them.

I have also decided to not include the variant adew (n° 41) with a light stroke (very unpractical to design with a police without serif like my Tengwar Grotesque), but instead I propose an adew with a dot, a variant also used by Tolkien in this mode.

Comments are welcome!

#tengwar #tolkien #elvishtypography

Edward Kloczko @e_kloczko presents some of his own glyphs, that he added to Toshi Omagari’s OpenSource #Tengwar typeface.
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#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang

Edward Kloczko @e_kloczko presents some of his own glyphs, that he added to Toshi Omagari’s OpenSource #Tengwar typeface.
—
#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang

Edward Kloczko @e_kloczko presents some of his own glyphs, that he added to Toshi Omagari’s OpenSource #Tengwar typeface.
—
#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang

Edward Kloczko @e_kloczko presents some of his own glyphs, that he added to Toshi Omagari’s OpenSource #Tengwar typeface.
—
#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang

Edward Kloczko @e_kloczko presents some of his own glyphs, that he added to Toshi Omagari’s OpenSource #Tengwar typeface.
—
#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang

Edward @e_kloczko starting his lecture by introducing #Tengwar and Tolkien.
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The font used is Playfair by @clauseggers

So I have re-worked to re-arrange the glyphs and put "rules" in Tengwar Typography.

#elvishtypography #tolkien #tengwar

The complex inner history (paleography) of the tengwa called "alda" and how voiceless l was written in Quenya modes.
This is from my forthcoming "A Tengwar Primer".

#tolkien #tengwar #paleography

The complex inner history (paleography) of the tengwa called "alda" and how voiceless l was written in Quenya modes.
This is from my forthcoming "A Tengwar Primer".

#tolkien #tengwar #paleography

The complex inner history (paleography) of the tengwa called "alda" and how voiceless l was written in Quenya modes.
This is from my forthcoming "A Tengwar Primer".

#tolkien #tengwar #paleography

The complex inner history (paleography) of the tengwa called "alda" and how voiceless l was written in Quenya modes.
This is from my forthcoming "A Tengwar Primer".

#tolkien #tengwar #paleography

@lttrspc

The flyers of my talk in Amsterdam about Tengwar have arrived. They look very much like postcards. 😍
Please share! Thank you. 🙏

#tolkien #tengwar #letterspace

@lttrspc

The flyers of my talk in Amsterdam about Tengwar have arrived. They look very much like postcards. 😍
Please share! Thank you. 🙏

#tolkien #tengwar #letterspace

@lttrspc

The flyers of my talk in Amsterdam about Tengwar have arrived. They look very much like postcards. 😍
Please share! Thank you. 🙏

#tolkien #tengwar #letterspace

@lttrspc

The flyers of my talk in Amsterdam about Tengwar have arrived. They look very much like postcards. 😍
Please share! Thank you. 🙏

#tolkien #tengwar #letterspace

@lttrspc

The flyers of my talk in Amsterdam about Tengwar have arrived. They look very much like postcards. 😍
Please share! Thank you. 🙏

#tolkien #tengwar #letterspace

Tiu ĉi paĝo celas disvastigi la verkojn de J.R.R. #Tolkien en la lingvo #Esperanto, plejparte pri La Hobito kaj La Mastro de l' Ringoj. Afiŝoj ankaŭ temos pri la skribsistemoj verkitaj de la Profesoro: Tengvaro kaj Kertaro adaptigitaj por skribi en Esperanto.
#LaHobito #LaMastroDeLRingoj #Tengvaro #Kertaro
#TheHobbit #LotR #Tengwar #Cirth

Tiu ĉi paĝo celas disvastigi la verkojn de J.R.R. #Tolkien en la lingvo #Esperanto, plejparte pri La Hobito kaj La Mastro de l' Ringoj. Afiŝoj ankaŭ temos pri la skribsistemoj verkitaj de la Profesoro: Tengvaro kaj Kertaro adaptigitaj por skribi en Esperanto.
#LaHobito #LaMastroDeLRingoj #Tengvaro #Kertaro
#TheHobbit #LotR #Tengwar #Cirth

Tiu ĉi paĝo celas disvastigi la verkojn de J.R.R. #Tolkien en la lingvo #Esperanto, plejparte pri La Hobito kaj La Mastro de l' Ringoj. Afiŝoj ankaŭ temos pri la skribsistemoj verkitaj de la Profesoro: Tengvaro kaj Kertaro adaptigitaj por skribi en Esperanto.
#LaHobito #LaMastroDeLRingoj #Tengvaro #Kertaro
#TheHobbit #LotR #Tengwar #Cirth

Tiu ĉi paĝo celas disvastigi la verkojn de J.R.R. #Tolkien en la lingvo #Esperanto, plejparte pri La Hobito kaj La Mastro de l' Ringoj. Afiŝoj ankaŭ temos pri la skribsistemoj verkitaj de la Profesoro: Tengvaro kaj Kertaro adaptigitaj por skribi en Esperanto.
#LaHobito #LaMastroDeLRingoj #Tengvaro #Kertaro
#TheHobbit #LotR #Tengwar #Cirth

Tiu ĉi paĝo celas disvastigi la verkojn de J.R.R. #Tolkien en la lingvo #Esperanto, plejparte pri La Hobito kaj La Mastro de l' Ringoj. Afiŝoj ankaŭ temos pri la skribsistemoj verkitaj de la Profesoro: Tengvaro kaj Kertaro adaptigitaj por skribi en Esperanto.
#LaHobito #LaMastroDeLRingoj #Tengvaro #Kertaro
#TheHobbit #LotR #Tengwar #Cirth

@lttrspc @eWalthert >The text would still be English, but written with #Tengwar letters, right?

Yes, exactly that.

Sitting in Saaremaa (EE) at a BBQ catching the view on an elvish tattoo… it is a line of a William Ernest Henley poem called Invictus. “I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
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It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien

Sitting in Saaremaa (EE) at a BBQ catching the view on an elvish tattoo… it is a line of a William Ernest Henley poem called Invictus. “I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
—
It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien

Sitting in Saaremaa (EE) at a BBQ catching the view on an elvish tattoo… it is a line of a William Ernest Henley poem called Invictus. “I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
—
It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien

Sitting in Saaremaa (EE) at a BBQ catching the view on an elvish tattoo… it is a line of a William Ernest Henley poem called Invictus. “I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
—
It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien

Sitting in Saaremaa (EE) at a BBQ catching the view on an elvish tattoo… it is a line of a William Ernest Henley poem called Invictus. “I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.”
—
It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien

These are the 2 "styles" of "Tengwar Sans" I am working on right now.
I have some idea for a 3rd one. Will show in a few days.
Feedback is welcome!
Don't be shy.
Say what you think.

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishtypography

Yesterday I designed a new "Tengwa Sans" but I was still unhappy with the counter space (see my previous post).

I think I fixed the problem by changing the angle of the end of the lúva (Elvish name) from vertical to about a 15° incline. Adding movement in, so to speak.

#tengwar #tolkien

I am working today on my 'Sans Tengwar' font. Since it is usual to give your name I decided to call it 'Joffe Tengwar Gothic'. Joffe (Joffé) is my matriname.

So far, this unusual double LL (two "lambe") has appeared only once in the published texts of Tolkien.

I have created two glyphs with the assistance of @eWalthert 🤝.

End users will be able to choose which glyph they prefer to use.

#tolkien #tengwar