Meaning of Tengwar | Babel Free

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A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya).

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“He's now trying to arrange for a type font set in the Tengwar alphabet”

“For example, Unicode hasn't yet incorporated Tengwar (an elvish script) into its official repertoire (although it's on the roadmap—there are, after all, many maps of Middle Earth).”

“An innovative feature of the Tengwar is that the shapes of the individual letters were designed to record phonetic features”

“The translator uses the Tengwar script to display Sindarin.”

“The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).”

“The poster for the mission, which is officially called NROL-101, sports a pretty clear Lord of the Rings theme, featuring a pair of interlocking golden rings and the phrase "goodness persists" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar script, the fictional language dreamed up entirely by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself.”

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