Links
Here can be found links to other sites on the World Wide Web that
provide original content on the writing systems of Aman.
The links were last verified on 2011-02-05.
- The Letters of Middle-earth
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A nice introduction to the Tengwar and Cirth, in
PDF format.
- The
Mellonath Daeron Index of Tengwar Specimina
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A work in progress to index all existing samples of Tengwar.
- Numerals (a PostScript file)
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This file summarizes just about everything we know about the Tengwar
numerals. It fits well onto one page.
- Rúmilian Numerals
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A thorough analysis of the different numeral systems used with the Sarati, and
how they may reflect the Elvish ideas on counting. (Formerly available as a PDF in the Lambengolmor archives.)
- Tengwar Feanora: alfabet elfów i ludzi
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A good Polish site about the Tengwar and its history.
- Guides for Tengwar and Runes
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Simplified guides of how to write with Tengwar in different languages. Include exercises!
Also features a description of the runes used in The Hobbit.
- Tengwar und ihre Verwendung
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A German site with a wealth of (if my rusty German is any judge)
well-written Tengwar information.
Note! I do not take responsibility for the quality of the translations. Furthermore, the content on these translations may be based on older versions of Amanye Tenceli, and thus not reflect the current texts of the site.
- Amanye Tenceli - Amans skriftspråk (Norsk)
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A Norwegian mirror.
- Amanye Tenceli - I Sistemi di Scrittura di Aman
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A mirror in Italian.
- Amanye Tenceli - Les Systèmes d’écriture d’Aman
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A French mirror.
- Amanye Tenceli - Os Sistemas de Escrita de Aman
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A mirror in Brazilian Portugese.
- Les systèmes d’écriture
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French translations of most of the pages on this site. The translated pages are found under the headings
Sarati and Tengwar.
- Dan Smith’s Fantasy Fonts
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Daniel Smith has created a number of Tengwar fonts.
He also provides very detailed information about the writing system,
in particular in the help file for the fonts.
- Free Tengwar Font Project
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“The Free Tengwar Font Project aims at developing a family of general purpose fonts that cover J. R. R. Tolkien’s
tengwar script and that are compatible with the Unicode standard. Additional aims are tools and documentation for the use of such fonts.”
This site is the new home of the font Tengwar Telcontar.
- KTT : KDE Tengwar Tool
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A transcription utility (Roman-to-Tengwar and Tengwar-to-Roman) for the Linux KDE environment,
fully compatible with TengScribe mode files as well as the TMF
format introduced with the YaTT utility.
- Las Tengwar de Fëanor
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Home of several nice original Tengwar fonts, including Tengwar Beleriand, Tengwar Elfica, and
Tengwar Gothika.
- online Tengwar Transcriber
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A very good online transcription tool that makes use of the same mode files as
TengScribe. Supports a number of modes, fonts and output formats.
Also available in Polish.
- Tengwar Annatar
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A beautiful freeware font family, consisting of four Tengwar fonts.
- Tengwar encoding and design
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Johan Winge’s blog about Tengwar fonts and Tengwar in Unicode.
- Tengwar Cursive
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A nice freeware Tengwar font, based on
the ring-inscription style, is downloadable
from the site of its maker.
- Tengwar Formal
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A good-looking freeware font based on the formal
book-hand.
- Tengwar Naive
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From the creator of Tengwar Annatar, a simple but nice-looking Tengwar Font.
- Tengwar Teleri
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Something as unusual as a “fantasy” Tengwar font, where the tengwar
look like swans.
- YaTT
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YaTT, or Yet another Tengwar Tool, is a Windows utility that transcribes from
Roman letters to Tengwar — and back! It is fully compatible with
TengScribe mode files.
- YaTT Lite
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A MacOS X utility, apparently a “lighter” version of
the Windows application YaTT.
- The Lord of the Rings: Calligraphy
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The home page of Daniel Reeve, the creator of calligraphy, maps and related works for the
Lord of the Rings movies directed by Peter Jackson.
Many works of great skill and beauty can be found here.
- Gwaith-i-Phethdain: Elvish Calligraphy
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A collection of Tengwar and Sarati calligraphy, mostly of high quality.
- Leonid Korablev’s Tolkien Picture Gallery
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Leonid Korablev is a skilled artist, and many of his Tolkien-inspired works
contain Tengwar inscriptions in Quenya.
- Mellonath Daeron: Tengwar Transcriptions and Calligraphy
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Pictures of colourful Tengwar calligraphy, by various artists.
- Valaquenta
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A fragment of the Valaquenta in archaic Quenya by Ryszard Derdzinski, tentatively
transcribed in the Sarati (based on our knowledge of the script
when only TPF had been published).
- Ardalambion
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Not really about Tengwar or Sarati, but the foremost source on the Internet regarding most
aspects of Tolkien’s invented languages.
- ElfScript
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A Yahoo! Groups mailing list where Tolkien’s writing systems are discussed.
- ElfScript2
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A moderated (= spam-free) Yahoo! Groups mailing list with the same purpose as ElfScript.
- Tengwar Blog
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An “experimental” blog written with Tengwar, thanks to the font capabilities of modern browsers.
- Sarati Rúmilo Quenyava
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Ryszard Derdzinski’s speculative proposal of how the Sarati might be used in Quenya
(based on our knowledge of the script
when only TPF had been published).
- Writing With Elvish Fonts
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Covers the best methods of writing with Tengwar using your Windows PC.
- Deutscher Tengwar Modus
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A thorough description of a German Tengwar mode.
- Suomen kirjoittaminen tengwarilla
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A Finnish Tengwar mode by Harri Perälä and Juho Pahajoki, here described
in Finnish. An English summary
is available.
- Tengwar alphabet for Scottish Gaelic
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Description of a Gaelic mode on the Omniglot web site.
- Tengwar alphabet for Welsh
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Description of a Welsh mode on the Omniglot web site.
- Tengwar Modes by Melroch
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Succinct descriptions of several new Tengwar modes.
- Тенгвар для русского языка
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A detailed description of a Russian Tengwar mode, available in Russian and English.
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