So you want to learn to write in elvish?

Dec 23, 2017 4:20 AM

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Not my OC, but a great resource. This is for the Quenya mode of Tolkien' s elvish language. The vowels go above or below the consonants, dependent on the letters around it. You can clearly see this lettering on the ring, albeit in much fancier script.

The text reads

"Ash nazg durbatulûk,
Ash nazg gimbatul,
Ash nazg thrakatulûk,
Agh burzum-ishi krimpatul."

This translates to four of the last five lines of Tolkien's poem,

"One ring to rule them all,
One ring to find them,
One ring to bring them all
And on the darkness, bind them."

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no i didnt want to but now i can fuck with people

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In*

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I used to be able to read and write elvish.

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Of all the examples of elvish you pick the piece of black speech that Gandalf was chided for saying in a haven of solace and light

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In grade school my group had a private lexicon of like 50 made up words. Administration thought we were a gang, somehow

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Saw the first post and thought. Oh. A post about the Zodiac

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So you can read doctor handwriting?

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The language of the Yiddish Elvis??

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No

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This looks like the Georgian alphabet

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So, how would one write diphthongs? Or aren't there any in Elvish?

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Now do Klingon!

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Hey, I was looking for this guide just yesterday. To write stuff while I'm bored at work. Wished they'd let me knit there.

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Pretty sure this is what i followed when i made my elvish tattoo... but still too worried to post it in case i screwed up...i do love it tho

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Don't talk to me until you master black speech.

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I mean, the inscription is black speech, just on the Quenya mode. It's a start

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I know what "woke" and "finna" means. Does that count?

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This has been debunked numerous times. There is no direct letter-for-letter translation from Elvish to English. English is symbolic. ->

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Partially true. Just translate the english word to phonetics. Writing "cow" in elvish would be "kaw".

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On top of that, this is just writing English words with the Tengwar alphabet. It's like using Morse code.

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-> Elvish is phonetic. They don't equate that way.

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If only there were a way to denote a symbol for certain phonetic syllables

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This would be writing in tengwar. Tengwar=script, quenya/sindarin=language. *pushes glasses up nose*

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the website Council of Elrond is a great resource for the language.

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But I was never sure what differences Cirth and Tengwar have?

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Cirth is the dwarvish script (the one that looks like runes), tengwar the elvish (like on the ring). Cirth is basically plagarised norse -

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- while tengwar characters aim to be a symbolic representation of where in the mouth each consonant is articulated. In fact, what sounds -

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- each character of tengwar represent is actually dependant on the language its representing!

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We used elvish in HS (in the most crude way) to pass notes (I had a cipher in my backpack). We got caught one day by the one teacher (1/2)

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Who knew what it was. Couldn't read it, but made us read it, and if he didn't believe us he said he'd look up the translation

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Me and a friend learned Braille and later a rune alphabet to write notes in school. No teacher complained.

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I would have made him look up the translation out of principle

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So what did you guys write?

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We used runes. worked well enough.

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Dwarvish?

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No, celtic I tried to link it, but I can't.

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So what did it say

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Oh it was just some gossip bs

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go on ...

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"Radagast blew Boromir behind the gym yesterday"

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I legit dont remember. Just remember the event

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