#tengwar

Name Etymologies of Middle-Earth: Gandalf

“Yes, yes, my dear sir—and I do know your name, Mr. Bilbo Baggins. And you do know my name, though you don’t remember that I belong to it. I am Gandalf, and Gandalf means me!”

Just always thinking about them 💙💙💙

Just always thinking about their history and all the horror and the moments of respite that are so precious and so precarious and both of them being so aware of the ways their bond puts them in greater danger and I just love them so much, both as separate figures and their relationship

Re-uploading one of my most monumental traditional pieces. These are the Fëanorians ✨

To be honest, this was my very first time painting with gouache, and it's huge (A3 size). Looking back, selling this massive original piece for just $8 was a massive mistake on my part, but it taught me a lot about valuing my art.

Image description: Photograph of chalk on concrete.  A white chalk outline of a hopscotch grid with twelve squares.  Each square contains a tengwar numeral from 1 to 12 written in chalk.  The squares are also decorated with colorful shading and surrounded by chalk doodles of abstract shapes, flowers, a rainbow, waves, a jewel, an eye, falling tears, and orange flames.  The concrete slab is variegated in color due to age & wear, dirt, and faded older chalk drawings.  Brown and green plant material and dirt can be seen on the far right side.

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[tekst po polsku: pod kreską]

I did not find brain space to translate any of my fics for Tolkien Nativelang :( (because I was focusing on writing my main WIP)

So there is an improvement of a thing that I've made some time ago but didn't post: an attempt (another attempt --- in addition to ones that have been made by other people) to make a Tengwar mode for Polish.

Goals:

all Polish sounds included

compatibility with other modes as much as feasible

logical and consistent as much as feasible

not adding too many new vowel symbols (but come on, we need the ą and ę)

No separation of ó/u, ż/rz and h/ch. This is Tengwar, let's make it more phonetic.

The vowel mark is placed over the preceding consonant (like in Quenya; unlike in Sindarin and English), because IIRC other Polish modes do it, and I feel like Polish has a lot of open syllables. (Alas! I am not a linguist.)

Some notes under the image:

T, P and many others are like in most other modes.

Calma for K, because it is the K sound. QU for C, because I have to place it somewhere. (Note to non-Polish-speaking people: our "C" is the "TS", not a K or Q)

Double arc letters are the voiced letters because all normal modes do it (not you, Quenya).

Vilya letter is Ć because I had no better place for Ć.

Anna letter is J because this is how it sounds + I when it sounds like J. Like "radio".

Not included in examples, but in words where "U" sounds like "Ł" (auto, dinozaur) it's written as Ł.

The RD and LD combos are quite rare in Polish, but let's include them, why not, I have nothing to do with these letters anyway.

For non-sylable-making I that dos not sound like J, (example: "Mickiewicz") let's just stack the I and the other vowel together.

For Ą and Ę let's just use the nasalization mark (~) with the vowel mark. It makes sense.

Ś and Ź get the top-heavy letters because they don't happen before a vowel.