Writing in Tengwar: Learn How to Use and Customize Tolkien’s Elvish Alphabet

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Writing in Tengwar: Learn How to Use and Customize Tolkien’s Elvish Alphabet

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6 ай бұрын

Tolkien’s Elvish script is beautiful, but it might seem hard to learn at first glance. It’s actually quite easy if you just take a closer look, and you can customize it as much as you want!
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@coreymack6208 6 ай бұрын

I was sick one day and called off work. I then learned how to write in the English mode of Tengwar in a single day. It’s very easy if you know how intuitive it is with voices and voiceless sounds. Sadly I don’t think it’s very practical outside of passing secret messages

@solalabell9674 6 ай бұрын

Writing Tolkien quotes that people have to ask you what they mean allowing you to launch into an exposition of the deeper meaning behind it and how it connects to the greater legendarium

@celtofcanaanesurix2245 6 ай бұрын

what's funny is a coworker of mine had a tattoo in tengwar, and he apparently thought that made it "elvish"

@anarionelendili8961 6 ай бұрын

English pronunciation is wild. Although French is very much a contestant. At least in Spanish, the shifts stay the same: j is an h sound, no matter where it is in the word. What makes the English alphabet even wilder is that the 'a' letter is pronounced ei, when it is an article it is an ö-sound, and only when it is used in a word it tends to be actual a-sound (car), except when it is ä-sound instead (can). I don't think it is ever pronounced as o,u or y, but that is still covering over half of the vowel sounds!

@greatscott175 6 ай бұрын

ASMR Fëanor Teaches You Elven Script [roleplay] [soothing voice] [calming gestures] [elven beard]

@Makkaru112 6 ай бұрын

There is a good one who does Glorfindel. Want me to give the name?

@Keffinated 6 ай бұрын

Check out Francis Lowick, the 17th century merchant who designed an alphabetic system based on place and manner of articulation which likely inspired the Fëanorian letters .❤

@gandalfolorin-kl3pj 6 ай бұрын

Melon Geek, excellent as always. Now could you please give a mini-oourse in speaking Elvish? That would be phenomenal. I've only known one person to master speaking in Elvish and he's now a priest--and probably doesn't use it as he used to. Keep up the good work. Namarie.

@TolkienLorePodcast 6 ай бұрын

I did a video on how you can go about learning it a while back, but I’m not good enough myself to actually teach a course on it 😂

@brandtbollers3183 6 ай бұрын

Thank You.

@brethilnen 6 ай бұрын

Chad has a cool video on learning Tengwar

@TolkienLorePodcast 6 ай бұрын

Chad?

@brethilnen 6 ай бұрын

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@TolkienLorePodcast 6 ай бұрын

@brethilnen oh wow two hours 😂

@brethilnen 6 ай бұрын

@@TolkienLorePodcast it was very helpful

@MasterPeibol 6 ай бұрын

In Spanish O is [o] not [oʊ] and C can be [k] and [θ] or [s] before E and I, depending on dialect

@TolkienLorePodcast 6 ай бұрын

Fair enough about the o, I was mainly distinguishing against oo and ah type sounds, and you’re right about c as well; I think my brain thought Latin and my mouth said Spanish 😂

@peternouwen 6 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Works with Japanese Hiragana and Katakana as well, if you want to learn Japanese. You learn the writing first and then the words (the same order as with every other western language, btw… but every English speaker already knows the Latin alphabet, so you don’t have to teach yourself that character-set… 🙃)

@peternouwen 6 ай бұрын

Ps. Doesn’t work with Kanji. Those represent a thing or idea, not a tone…

@mox3909 6 ай бұрын

You should check out the history of Sanskrit and the pakrits. The rules and variations sound very familiar.

@iainmc9859 6 ай бұрын

I appreciate all the effort this took to put together, unfortunately it all went south when you started to have to explain the structure of English to native English speakers ... from that point it had the Curse of Feanor(ian script) written all over it. That of course wouldn't apply to most people learning English as a second language, as they get some sort of grounding in the vagaries of English pronunciation that native speakers rarely have pointed out to them. 10/10 for effort though.