beccaland:

stut–ter:

idareu2bme:

lokidindeed:

i-deduce-youre-a-bitch:

YOU NIQQAS WANNA LEARN ELVISH?! HERE YA GO!

is this legit?

This is legit. My husband, sitting across the room, looks over and says, “IS THAT SOMEONE SHOWING HOW TO CONVERT ENGLISH TO TENGWAR?  BECAUSE THAT’S THE WAY!”

Believe this man.  He owns atlases of Middle Earth, the complete history of Midle Earth (leatherbound), and has read the books at least 150 times.  Also: speaks elvish.

Yes.

Correction: A language is not an alphabet.

Tengwar is a script (ie an alphabet), not a language. It can be used to write any of the Elvish languages, but it is not Elvish.

It can also be used to write many other languages, including English, in much the same way that English can be written using the standard Roman alphabet that I am using now (and which is also used for other Romance and Germanic languages), or using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

If you “convert English to Tengwar,” you aren’t writing in Elvish. You are writing English using the Tengwar script. But it still looks really cool and you should totally still learn it.

Bonus: learning to write in Tengwar can help you learn all sorts of nifty stuff about phonetics, because the shapes of the letters correspond to the distinctive sounds they represent, so you’ll get to learn nifty stuff like places of articulation, voiced/unvoiced, stops and fricatives.