#tengwar — Public Fediverse posts
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Transliteration from Tengwar to English of the title page text from the #silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
I got new green ink, so I had to.
#Tolkien #books #tengwar #elvish #calligraphy #FountainPen #art #writing #fantasy #literature
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Transliteration from Tengwar to English of the title page text from the #silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
I got new green ink, so I had to.
#Tolkien #books #tengwar #elvish #calligraphy #FountainPen #art #writing #fantasy #literature
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Spent months wrestling AFDKO/.fea into doing Tengwar transliteration. Turns out there's a reason it fights back: built in-house at Adobe for Adobe's own workflows, only open-sourced in 2014, and still tied to its Euro-centric origins — great for Latin, thin support for complex/non-Latin scripts. So it's not just me. The tool genuinely wasn't built for what I'm asking of it. 😅 #Tengwar #TypeDesign #FontLab
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Spent months wrestling AFDKO/.fea into doing Tengwar transliteration. Turns out there's a reason it fights back: built in-house at Adobe for Adobe's own workflows, only open-sourced in 2014, and still tied to its Euro-centric origins — great for Latin, thin support for complex/non-Latin scripts. So it's not just me. The tool genuinely wasn't built for what I'm asking of it. 😅 #Tengwar #TypeDesign #FontLab
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Spent months wrestling AFDKO/.fea into doing Tengwar transliteration. Turns out there's a reason it fights back: built in-house at Adobe for Adobe's own workflows, only open-sourced in 2014, and still tied to its Euro-centric origins — great for Latin, thin support for complex/non-Latin scripts. So it's not just me. The tool genuinely wasn't built for what I'm asking of it. 😅 #Tengwar #TypeDesign #FontLab
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Spent months wrestling AFDKO/.fea into doing Tengwar transliteration. Turns out there's a reason it fights back: built in-house at Adobe for Adobe's own workflows, only open-sourced in 2014, and still tied to its Euro-centric origins — great for Latin, thin support for complex/non-Latin scripts. So it's not just me. The tool genuinely wasn't built for what I'm asking of it. 😅 #Tengwar #TypeDesign #FontLab
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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#Tengwar #Elvish #JRRTolkien #ConLang -
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.”
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It was translated in an online translator. Cc: @e_kloczko #elvish #tengwar #tolkien -
Beside designing Tengwar Fonts I am actually writing a Grammar of Quenya (and Sindarin) and writing my (?5th) version of my Dictionary of Quenya.
English words with an asterisk are my "propositions" (= additions to Tolkien often very short definitions)
CE = Common Eldarin the mother tongue of QuenyaAny dictionary is a "book layout Hell" esp. at 7pt.
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Remember, we're not Elves. 🤔
And there is no speaker of Elvish (in any form or shape).
English words with * = my proposition/addition.
{ } = my addition for better comprehension
The tengwar are used according to the ára-tencela mode.
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This is a very short quote from a very long text by Tolkien. He explained how his Tengwar were used for the Old Noldorin (ON) language. You never heard of it? This language does not exist anymore in the last Phase of Tolkien's writings (circa 1949-1973). There is no Old Noldorin in "The lord of the Rings" or "The Silmarillion".
About 1949, Old Noldorin was 'transformed' into his new Old Sindarin language and most of these rules became irrelevant. 🤷♂️
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Because Life is complicated, Tolkien loved only complicated things.
Many readers find that the story of the "Hobbit" or the "Lord of the Rings" are simple or straightforward would be surprised to discover that they are far from the truth.
One of the most difficult rule to understand of the Tengwar is their flexibility.
The consonant diacritics (3 dots = a; accent = i) can be read as being before or after the consonant depending on the mode used. -
I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
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I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
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I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
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I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
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I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
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Quenya "laune".
The word is written in Alcarin Tengwar in the ára-tencele mode.
The underlined sentence was written by Tolkien. LQ3 = is the Quenya language from c.1930 to 1949.
Not the same in grammar in "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion". That language is marked TQ for Tarquesta. -
My work on the typography of the Tengwar.
Not only did Tolkien imagine the Elvish letters, punctuation, and various symbols, abbreviations, but also all the numbers and even more, since he decided that the Elves (and Dwarves) used also the duodecimal system.
In the center, the number 12 (10) in duodecimal. And below, Tolkien's text explaining it.
This is my first attempt; I'm not entirely satisfied. -
My work on the typography of the Tengwar.
Not only did Tolkien imagine the Elvish letters, punctuation, and various symbols, abbreviations, but also all the numbers and even more, since he decided that the Elves (and Dwarves) used also the duodecimal system.
In the center, the number 12 (10) in duodecimal. And below, Tolkien's text explaining it.
This is my first attempt; I'm not entirely satisfied. -
My work on the typography of the Tengwar.
Not only did Tolkien imagine the Elvish letters, punctuation, and various symbols, abbreviations, but also all the numbers and even more, since he decided that the Elves (and Dwarves) used also the duodecimal system.
In the center, the number 12 (10) in duodecimal. And below, Tolkien's text explaining it.
This is my first attempt; I'm not entirely satisfied. -
Tolkien wrote the Latin language using Tengwar. Tolkien used in fact the Tengwar to write several natural languages beside English.
Below Tolkien's manuscript with my transliteration.
I call this mode the "Latin full mode".
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