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Many people asked me how to study Quenya/Sindarin or how to begin writing with

Many people asked me how to study Quenya/Sindarin or how to begin writing with T engwar, so I thought I'd write a quick FAQ guide to answers all of your questions. Enjoy! Lucia Deetz 1. Where to learn elvish (Quenya or Sindarin)? There's so many tutorials on the internet it's hard to point at only one of them. I personally found the lanuage lessons on councilofelrond.com to be pretty good and easy to follow. There's also the course called "quetin i lambe eldaiva", which you can find here: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~trenk/elvish/ after scrolling down the page. This last PDF course is much more detailed than the course on CoE, so I'd suggest you - if you start learning elvish from the very start - to get the hang of the language through the CoE course first. 2. Where to learn how to write with Tengwar? T engwar is an aplhabet just like the latin and russian alphabets, so firstly you need to know how each letter of the source alphabet is to be transliterated to the new alphabet. This is a good guide for this purpose: http://www.omniglot.com/writing/tengwar.htm 3. What are "modes"? Quenya and Sindarin are both elvish languages, but they're not alike. They are written in a completely different way when using T engwar. This because many Quenya words end in a vowel, while many Sindarin words end in a consonant. Every language has its own transliterating mode and you have to make sure you're using the right mode when transliterating from source alphabet to the new one. FE, you can't use the italian tengwar mode for writing english words and the other way round. The tutorial linked above also talks about modes. 4. What if I want to write Tengwar with the keyboard? There are lots of free T engwar fonts available on internet. Just pick one of them and install it on your computer. When writing with a text editor, you musn't forget that the keys layout is not the same as in the "qwerty" layout. Latin letter A and the tengwa for A are not positioned on the same key. Use this image as a layout guide: http://quenya101.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/tengwar-keyboard-layout.png 5. What if I'm lazy and don't want to search for every single key? I'm lazy, so I've got the answer. There's a little but very useful program called T engScribe that does all the dirty work. You install it, you download the modes you need, you run it, you write in latin letters, the program automatically transliterates them in T engwar for you. In less than 3MB. The link: http://at.mansbjorkman.net/tengscribe.htm 6. How come every time I copy a string of text from TengScribe and paste it to another text editor I get a random series of weird symbols? Go to question number 4. Select the string of text and switch the font of your text editor (fe, word, notepad and the like) to the T engwar font you installed on your pc. The transliterated text will appear. 7. How do I use Tengwar on my blog/site/else? I'm afraid you can't, at least if you're thinking of text strings. The only thing you can do is taking a screenshot of your desktop and copy/paste it on Paint, cutting out the unwanted parts and leaving just the picture of the text. 8. How to get a good elvish pronunciation? Just keep listening to T olkien's own recordings (here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6de_SbVUVfA) and try to emulate the sounds. Pronunciation may be easier or harder depending on your native language. It may be a bit harder for an English mothertongue than for a person speaking any latin language, but it's not impossible. T olkien himself spoke English and managed to have a perfect elvish pronunciation. uploads/s1/ elvish-guide.pdf