I made a tengwar keyboard. Tengwar layout as from Dan Smith’s tengwar fonts, a good reference is here.
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I just bought a $10 keyboard, used black nail polish to paint over the already existing letters and wrote on the Tengwar with silver permanent marker. Very easy. :)
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also, I know this girl who’s getting a tattoo soon, and it’s like Lord of the Rings kinda, and she was talking about how much she was into elves and stuff, so she’s getting a tattoo in an elf language…but she called the language “Elven”… and I’m like isn’t it “Elvish”? I didn’t correct her or anything but I was really confused and like. ohno. is my life a lie? Or is the self-proclaiming-mega-fan mistaken? CAN THAT EVEN HAPPEN?
I am so confused with life.
It could go either way. My recollection is that most characters say “Elvish” when referring to written or spoken language of the Elves, but it could be an artifact of how Tolkien wanted his English-as-translation-of-Westron to “feel” to the reader. The term “Elven” does occur, such as in “Quenya, or High-Elven”, “Sindarin, or Grey-Elven”, and of course the phrase “Half-Elven” (Elrond, etc.). So it’s not totally incorrect but somehow the phrase “Elven languages” just sounds weird to me in the Tolkien context; I want to say “Elvish languages” (and so I normally do).
Is it the same language that Gandalf uses for/on Thorin at the end of the movie?
I just feel like I need to know this.
It’s Quenya. The spell is:
Lerya laman naiquentallo
Sí a hlare ómaquettar
Nai coilerya en-vinyanta
Sí a hlare ómaquettar
Na coilerya en-vinyanta.
(Free this animal from the curse, now hear words of my voice, be its life renewed, now hear words of my voice, be its life renewed.)
Most of the spells used by wizards are spoken in Quenya. :)
I’m totally going to practice saying this now, because it sounds so fantastic. <3
I was going to guess it was Quenya without a sample, because of that fact. The spell Saruman uses when the Fellowship is on Caradhras is also Quenya, for example. You may be interested in this page on samples of Elvish and other languages in the Jackson films.
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YOOOO HOBBITS. FUCKING HOBBITS MAN. LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT HOBBITS.
ok, so imagine you’re kind of this angel dude. except like you’re old and you spend 100% of your time on the mortal plane. so like you’re actually a…
God I hate tumblr sometimes. Also, I thought it was understood that Bombadil was a Maia?
I don’t think that’s “understood”, as in “known to be the case”. That he is a Maia is just one theory. http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Theories_about_Tom_Bombadil
