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Published: 2007-08-29 18:07:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 111867; Favourites: 996; Downloads: 5503
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If you use this tutorial to make a deviation of any kind, kindly comment below and tell me so. I'd love to view your work,
it, and possibly critique it, if you so desire. You don't have to credit me in the comments, seeing as I didn't actually create Elvish, but I really want to see if you used it. 
This took me like, 2 or 3 days. But that's just because I'm distractable.
I also have this available as a Word document, if you want it for printing purposes. Sorry, the computer the Word document was saved on is LONG gone!!!
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References:
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien
thanks to for this fabulous workbook !!! I suggest comparing my tutorial and this workbook to get a more rounded view on how to write in Elvish!
NOTE: The workbook is a pdf, just to let you know. Apparently this workbook has disappeared!!!Elvish fonts found at [link] ... They're fabulous, but make sure you use the character map pdf that comes with it, or what you think says "mellon" will actually say ldfyywhw! And yes, that's what it will actually say.
If there is anything else you want to know, just tell me!
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P.S.- Want a REAL challenge?? Translate THIS! [link]
P.P.S.- I just noticed this, I messed up the example for Quenya, with the word "Elemmire"... The Tehtar are pretty much all in the wrong place. The "practice" example is correct, however.
P.P.P.S.- OHOHOH. If you wanna learn real elvish, go here, it's a great website!!! [link] ...or you can get the book The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth [link] by Ruth S. Noel, it's veeeery helpful.
P.P.P.P.S.- I like P.S... hehehe. Check out this website by .
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I take requests/commissions on Elvish calligraphy such as this. Right now it’s free because I’m not a greedy person, but I don’t know how long it will stay that way. Please see my journal [link] for more information.
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Thank you to everyone for the comments and the
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Comments: 255
WHOA what is that? It looks interesting and difficult.
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It's Illythiiri, or Drow, from R.A. Salvatore's Drizzt series. The problem with learning it is that there are so many dialects (that comes from there is a different dialect for each of the Houses out there) that it's hard to pin down a decent translation for all of them. I think I'll put up a tutorial like yours, but for the dialect I use, and it'll take quite some time. ^_^
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this is great. I've been trying to learn elvish for about three years now and while i already had this information, it was really nice to have it all laid out like this! it really helped me stay organized! thanks!
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hi how can i get this for a word document. i think it is really cool but i am having trobles getting it started and this turtorial is really good
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hey if you have the time i'd like to make sure i got it right, i want to write "Teddy"
i think you put T, the e over the t, the d with a wave underneath to make it double, and two dots for y over the ds?
I'd really appreciate if you could let me know cause i plan on getting a tat of this, ty
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I have been trying so hard to find something like this to help me. I want to get a tattoo (if my parents let me) of my name in elvish but I find that my name is sort of hard to do. Hopefully I will like my name using your guide. Thanks!!!
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omg.. its hard tryning just to writhe Saruman in it
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this is really cool! I love it! Thanks! Oh and can you please help me with commissions I don't know how to set them up
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When I was younger I got so excited that my name(anna) was part of the Elvish alphabet
Tolkien is awesome...
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lol I was like that once too
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You are great. I give you the Seal of Awesome. It shall be yours forever.
/bows/
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Oh, and I followed some of the links, and the workbook linked to in the Artist's Comments is no longer available.
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SAD. It was a really great workbook
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Oh and question: How would one write the word "without" in the Sindarin alphabet?
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Kinda hard to describe...
W, i over the HARD th, o UNDER the hard th (or on a placeholder), u above the t.
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OooOh, I can't open the workbook! x.x
Great tutorial, BTW!
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Very cool tutorial, very helpful. I knew the basics, but this taught me how to do pretty much anything in the Tengwar. Time to go and correct all the pages of crap I've written.
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hehe, glad to be of help
ps I saw you were just in #TolkienWorld... even if I don't say hi, I'm usually there... just tab me and I'll say hi
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That's how I found your tutorial, actually. I'm easily distracted...
But great tutorial!
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You did a very good job with this! And it's very helpful to me, thank you.
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Heh, cool! This looks like a really handy resource!
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Thanks for the tutorial. I've always wanted to learn how to write in elvish
To be honest, I read through in a hurry, but it looks quite detailed. I will study this more when I have more time.
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it'll be there for a while
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This is pretty awesome! When I get a little more free time, I intend to work through it.
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take your time... it takes a while to get the hang of it all
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wow, this looks really awesome. I'm certainly gonna keep this in mind for if I ever have the spare time enough to work through it
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yeah, it took me a couple months to really get it down pat, but it's sooo much fun once you do
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As you can see, not a good book. If you want the best places for Elvish and Tolkien's languages, I recommend www.realelvish.net for casual study and fun (like name translations), and Ardalambion ([link] ) for the hardcore folk. You get plurals, lenitions... crazy stuff.
I haven't tried Council of Elrond, but these two I know are generally correct, especially Ardalambion. Ardalambion has been around since the 90s, it's good stuff.
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Hehe, I just used it for the Tengwar, but I couuuld get rid of the recommendation
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Well, at least she got something right XD But when it comes to the language itself, there are tons of errors. Which makes me sadface.
But she's not nearly as bad as the people of Grey Company and their elvish. Complete distortion of the languages.
BTW, this was really awesome to read- I had learned it before a couple of times, but it's nice to have a one-stop place here on dA
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