Elvish Fonts!

Sorry for the consecutive posts but I can't edit my post anymore.

Exa, what type of of font was used frequently in the writings in the movie? Other than the inscription thing? 😕 Coz they all pretty much look the same I can't distinguish. 🙁

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
Exa, I still didn't forget it up to now, but...is one of those fonts the Easterling or Haradrim runes? 😄

Originally posted by shadowy_blue
Sorry for the consecutive posts but I can't edit my post anymore.

Exa, what type of of font was used frequently in the writings in the movie? Other than the inscription thing? 😕 Coz they all pretty much look the same I can't distinguish. 🙁

The elvish writing isnt just a font like all the others in word because it works after a different system - there is no Tengwa letter for a, b, c and so on, and so there is also no font that could really work with that. You are right, the only font that looks similar to the one that was used for the Ring inscription is the strange one on the first page - but the big difference is how the letters are used. This font simply takes random "elvish" letters that somehow look like our normal ones - like, the "silme nunquerma" letter (used in elvish writing for the s- or ss-sound) looks like a capital E, so it's used as an E. Thats nice if you want to produce goodlooking and elegant texts, but not if you want to write the elvish way. For this, you need the other fonts that maybe look a little different (as they are not that thin and cursive as the one in the ring inscription), but you can (mostly only if you know how to write elvish in "reality"😉 write correct elvish texts with them.

The only font that is in the middle between (and that I also found) is the one called "Tengwar-Gandalf". It looks elvish, it mostly uses the elvish letters, but in the way it would seem logical for us, so if you press the t-key you get an elvish t [the letter should look somehow like this: p ). It's not 100% correct elvish in the end, it's not possible to use all the extra signs, but at least you can get an easy transcription with the real elvish letters (by the way, the L in the font is the wrong way round 😛 looks good though), so - try this one 🙂

I downloaded this thing called the Tengwar Scribe, but I'm not happy with it...I always thought the vowels weren't always written out but rather used some form of dots and slashes like they do in Arabic.

Yes thats right - at least in the normal styles. There are socalled fullwriting-styles (like the Beleriand-one for Sindarin) that use - as the name says - full letters for vowels.

The Tengwarscribe-Font or the program?

Originally posted by Exa
Yes thats right - at least in the normal styles. There are socalled fullwriting-styles (like the Beleriand-one for Sindarin) that use - as the name says - full letters for vowels.

The Tengwarscribe-Font or the program?

It's a program...on one side you write normal then it translates it on the other pretty cool, but I would prefer it if it wrote in the normal style...

My name would probably look like this in english - Fnr

Originally posted by Fëanor
It's a program...on one side you write normal then it translates it on the other pretty cool, but I would prefer it if it wrote in the normal style...

My name would probably look like this in english - Fnr

Its the one that translates to other latin letters, right? or does it directly translate to Tengwar?`

If to latin letters - which font do you use then?

It would be like F_nr 😄

Directly to tengwar...but it's inconsistent...theres tengwar cursive and tengwar elf(a)

Hmm where did you download it? Cant you chose which writing (I mean long vowels or tehtar ones) to use?

I have to look for it again...I didn't bookmark it...you can choose three types of fonts when you download it...which ones I don't know I'll look into it.

Aha
thx ... will also look for it I think I dont have it yet... strange that it doesnt transcribe the vowels as they should be will look that up

yeah, i think i may have not d/l it properly...i remember reading about transcribing the vowels in the correct form. if and when i find it i'll send you a note.

... is it from here
http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/tengscribe.htm
...?

again i must bow to you...yes, yes it is...as they say here

you da bomb g!

LOL 😄 😛

Who says what where lol

oh...here in L.A. or most parts of America where slang is commonly used. it more or less means you are great!

😄 🙂 😮

Another great font: YATT (Yet Another Tengwar Tool):
http://www.jadro.cz/tengwar/index.php

also loads of downloadable stuff
http://www.geocities.com/tengwar2001/

For Daniel Smiths fonts (best ever 😄 )
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar

also nice:
http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html

Originally posted by Fëanor
again i must bow to you...yes, yes it is...as they say here

you da bomb g!

😂 Yeah, I live in the US too so I know what you're talking about haha. I hate that saying though....It makes no sense.....You are da bomb....It's like saying someone's gonna light themselves on fire and wait til they blow up...then blow up haha. It means, as you said, the same as you are great, but I still don't get it.....Then again, I don't keep up with the slang things everyone says....Like that "stank" thing...I dunno if you've heard of it before or not, but it's like when someone says someone's name, someone else says stank...Like stink, I guess (ex. Bob!!....Stank!)....I don't get that one either....Makes no sense what-so-ever. *sigh* What has this generation come to? haha. I wonder why everyone doesn't just say stuff that everyone can understand....Cause I don't understand any of the things they say...And I'm a teenager, so you would expect me to know what these things mean...Or what they're even saying haha.

Anyways, thanks for the fonts, everyone! I love them!!! 😄

Yeah I don't know why they say that...sound dumb if ya ask me...how about 'phat'...where did that come form?

Phat? heheee we also have that here...

you've got to be kidding...really. damn americans and their lousy way talking...

oh and helluu Exa... 😄