TENGWAR-ELESIL V.1.

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1. First open this tutorial of the Tengwar-Elesil font!!!

2. Install the fonts >> If an error-message pops up (Mac) install them

anyway, they should work (OSX 10.9.5).

3. After youve installed them, go back to this file and read the How
to use
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How to use the Tengwar-Elesil

- In difference to the Tengwar Eldanaro, the Tengwar Elesil are

made to fit the Quenya language. Theyre actually the original
Fanorian Tengwar created by Prof. Tolkien himself.

- It is not possible to write with the Tengwar Elesil in English or

German!!!

- All of the simple Tengwar are in the correct order on the keyboard.
(Thats not the case with the fonts: Tengwar Annatar, Tengwar
Parmaite, Tengwar Gandalf und Tengwar Quenya.)

- All three of the Elesil fonts contain the same Tegnwar and Tehtar
(vowels), just their (the Tehtars) position was slightly changed to fit
the different Tengwar better as shown in the example below. (Install
the fonts first).

i tengwar elesil i tear elesil >> i tear elesil

VOWELS

- Vowels, also called Tehtar, are little dots or lines upon the tengwa
(consonant) which stands directly before the vowel in the words order.
As shown in the example (Blue). Just vowels which are used to build
diphthongs, like ai, have a second form: u=U i=I to write those in the
Elesil you have to use the capital letters, so: u=U i=I. A combination
like ai looks in Quenya: Ia, and is written as: Ia. (Please have a look on
the rule ones below.)
 - If two vowels stand in a Diphthong-combination, the Tehta-vowel is said
first and the carrier-vowel afterwards !!! But in the Tengwar Elesil its
written in the opposite after the rule: Tengwa/carrier-Vowel before Tehta-
Vowel so the example of ai is written like (Capital i) - Ia, because the I(i)
is the carrier for the a.

- Whenever a vowel stands right at the beginning of a word it stands upon

a short or a long carrier ( or ) That depends on if its a short or a long
vowel. To make that as easy as possible I put the short carrier on the -
Key (Paragraph) and the long carrier on the -Symbol (Degree = + ).
(on the keyboard the /-key is normally directly beneath esc.*Swiss-
keyboard)

- Long vowels always stand upon a long carrier.

So (Red): istan (I dont know) >> uistan, is written as uistan.

- As shown in the example above a Tehta also stands upon a short carrier
when another vowel stands before it. (In the example Blue)

- The vowel y (Tehta y) is special. Because it stands beneath the Tengwa

or carrier you can write it together with another vowel on one Tengwa.
But you may also put it onto a new carrier.

CONSONANTS

- All simple consonants are in the correct keyboard order so you can write
just normally with them. (Please know that not all the consonants we
know are also known in the Quenya-Language. For example there is
no b or no d for its own, just with other consonants in a combination.)

- But there are some special exeptions! Because Prof. Tolkien created own
symbols for several consonants together like ng (@). To write these
characters correct anyway you have to use either capital letters as
well as whole key combinations like alt.+n for nd.
Heres the list of all special Tengwar and their keys:
[ = SHIFT | alt. = alt (OPTION)] (DONT TAP THE +!!! a combination like alt.+s is
only the keys alt. and s.)

Meaning | Key | Tengwa |

ss / | alt. + s | |

ng | alt. + g| @ |

ngw | alt.++g | |

n (2nd) | | |

c | alt. + c | |

nqu | +c |C |

nd | alt. + n| ~ |

nt | alt. + t | |

nw | alt.++n | |

mb | alt. + b| |

mp | alt. + p| |

ld | alt. + l | |

hw | alt.++h | |

hy (2nd) | H | H |

qu |q |q |

rd | alt. + r | |

wh | alt.++w | |

Diph. i |I |I |

Diph. u | U |U |

PUNCTUATION

- The Tengwar font also has an own punctuation which the Tengwar Elesil
includes.
Heres the list:

Meaning | Key | Tengwa |

. |. |. |

, |, | , |

- |- | - |

! |! |! |

? |? |? |

 | alt.++, | |

| alt. + , | |

NUMBERS

- The Tengwar Elesil also contains Quenyas number-system (as far as its
known). This contains the numbers 0 - 9, which are just the numbers on
the keyboard. 1=1 2=2

- The original number-system of Quenya is based upon a system of 12

numbers, but because the correct Tengwar for 10, 11, 12 arent known
(there are several ?correct/incorrect? Versions of them) these are
not included, and are probably never to be included. *Sorry

However

Many thanks for reading this tutorial and have fun using the
Tengwar Elesil.
li hErEn ar haanyEl