Quenta Ession as Tengwar Dan Smithva: the Book of Names with Dan Smith’s Letters The Book of Names will tell you how to transcribe the names of many of Tolkien’s characters and places using his alphabets. The original book of names just shows the assorted names using tengwar: Elrond lj7h2{ This is useful when you want to copy the lettering over by hand. However, if you are producing artwork digitally, you may want to use one of the commonly available TrueType fonts. For a variety of reasons, there is no good way to arrange tengwar into a font (you can’t simply put the tengwa for ‘a’ on the ‘a’ key because there are several tengwar that mean ‘a’ in different situations). So just typing ‘elrond’ into a font will get you elrond—which looks, to an Elf, like you were trying to write ‘fevhwwch’. To get out lj7h2{, you have to type lj7h2{. So the current version of the Book of Names shows the letters you must type to get the correct spelling of the characters’ names: Elrond lj7h2{ lj7h2{ This will work with the following fonts: • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Dan Smith’s Tengwar Quenya • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Dan Smith’s Tengwar Sindarin • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Dan Smith’s Tengwar Noldor • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Johan Winge’s Tengwar Annatar (the font used in this document) • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Mans Björkman’s Tengwar Parmaite • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Mans Björkman’s Tengwar Eldamar • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Enrique Mombello’s Tengwar Elfica • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Enrique Mombello’s Tengwar Gothika • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Josh Griffing’s Tengwar Teleri • lj7h2{ ql7l4lj Paulo A. Otto’s Tengwar Hereno Some of the more obscure tehtar did not fit on the standard keyboard; you must get them using extended character sets. For example, to get the twist in 2ènj`5, you must produce the glyph è. On a Windows machine, I believe you do this by holding down the Alt key and typing the numbers 0232; on a Macintosh, you do this by pressing option-` (the tick mark below the tilde) and then e. We indicate this as follows: Dwalin 2ènj`5 2ènj`5 2(232)nj`5 Thus, you may get 2ènj`5 by copying and pasting the text 2ènj`5 and changing to a Tengwar font, or by using character numbers as indicated on the second line. The fonts Tengwar Formal lj7h2{ ql7l4lj, Tengwar Naive lj7h2{ ql7l4lj, and Tengwar Beleriand lj7h2{ ql7l4lj are missing some of these tehtar. For example, Nenya is properly spelled 5$5#Ì, and if you use Tengwar Formal the underdots won’t appear: 5$5Ì#. So if you use these fonts, always check with the transcriptions in this document to see if you are missing anything. Quenya Sindarin English/Westron Beleriand Gondor Eärendil `V`C7F2%j `V`C7F2%j l]7l2{`j l]7l2{`j `V7D2{$j% `V7D2{$j% ln7l2{`j ln7l2{`j Ardamírë `CuDt~B7F `CuDt~B7F ]72]y`V7l ]72]y`V7l 7D2t#~B7`V 7D2t#~B7`V n62nt`V7l n62nt`V7l the Mariner @ tn7`5È6 @ tn7`5(200)6 Elwing `VjnTg `VjnTg ljn`g ljn`g j$yb% j$yb% lj.`b lj.`b Círdan a~BuD5 a~BuD5 a`V72]6 a`V72]6 z~B725# z~B725# z`V62n5 z`V62n5 the Shipwright @ d`q.7`v1 @ d`q.7`v1 As in the standard Book of Names, we show multiple transcriptions for each name because Tolkien had different methods of transcribing words into tengwar, depending on who was writing when and what language they used; Círdan would have written his own name as a`V72]6, or as a~BuD5 if he was writing in Quenya, but Bilbo would have referred to him as z`V62n5 and Faramir would have referred to him as z~B725#. For your convenience, the suggested mode for each character is written in black and colors. Other available spellings are written in gray. If you use more than one name in a picture, take all the spellings from the same column. Thus: • `V`C7F2%j `V`C7F2%j Eärendil, • ln7l2{`j @ tn7`5È6 ln7l2{`j @ tn7`5È6 Eärendil the Mariner, • l]7l2{`j ]9 ljn`g l]7l2{`j ]9 ljn`g Eärendil ah Elwing. Here are the modes I use: • Classical Quenya: The usual method of writing Quenya described in Appendix E. • Generic Quenya: It is impossible to write, say, Bilbo in Classical Quenya; this mode provides an alternative if you want a mostly-Quenya text with a few Mannish or Sindarin names. • Beleriand: The Mode of Beleriand off the West-Gates of Moria (recommended for Silmarillion characters and Elves in general). • Arnor: The Mode of writing Sindarin used by the Dúnedain in Arnor. • Gondor: The Mode of writing Sindarin used in Gondor. • Full: Tolkien’s preferred method for writing long inscriptions in English. • Tehta: A mode based on the tehta mode of Gondor (taken from the title page to The Lord of the Rings). Names are sorted as follows: Other characters; grammatical words (“grammatical words” here means and, the, of, so you can say “Aragorn and Arwen”) Birds Dragons Ents Ainur (Valar, Maiar, Wizards, Balrogs) Animals and Plants Dwarves Elves Half-Elves Hobbits Westron names of the hobbits Men (First Age) Men (Second Age) Men (Third/Fourth Age) Men of Arnor Men of Dol Amroth Men of Gondor Rohirrim Orcs Places Rivers Objects Each section is sorted alphabetically by character’s last name (if they have one) or most common name (if they don’t). Be careful! There are over a thousand names in this document. Each is in multiple modes. I have an automatic transcription process that is pretty good, but it’s not perfect (especially for English names). Also, there is some debate as to what the correct transcriptions of English (and to a lesser extent Quenya and Sindarin) names actually are. I think that almost all of the names in this document are transcribed acceptably; I don’t think that every single name in this document is transcribed exactly as Tolkien would have written it. 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