Setekh wrote:
Caesara wrote:
What's tengwar?
unless im getting myself mixed up here;
AKA: the dark tongue, the language used by the dark forces, probably created by Melkor; the first evil.
ie: lord of the rings, its seen exclusivly on the ring as far as i remember.
(in the "trilogy" anyway)
I think you got mixed up

Tengwar is an artificial script which was invented by J. R. R. Tolkien. In his works, the Tengwar script, supposedly invented by Fëanor, was used to write a number of the languages of Middle-earth, including Quenya and Sindarin, but it can also be used to write other languages, such as English. The word tengwar is Quenya for "letters". The corresponding singular is tengwa, "letter".
Quenya and Sindarin on the other hand are two variations of elven languages in Tolkien's works, Quenya is used by high elves and Sindarin is the language of the gray elves. When writing tengwar in Quenya and in Sindarin there are some small differences in the placement of vowels etc.
... so now you know

Charisma wrote:
thank you, I was just going to ask that. Is it like some type of combination of the letters etc...I see how the I is mixed in with the P but other than that it looks totally different. How did you start learning?
Basically I started off just by browsing webpages, trying to summarize the whole lot into my own notebook and then it's pretty much just about the training. I really want to lear this by heart. Also I need to keep searching for errors and additional facts etc. since it's not just as simple as our regular alphabet. For example there are two signs for the letter 'R', and depending on the pronounciation you have to choose one or the other. Then there are also a few letter combinations, such as "LD", when the following happens:
LD becomes [LD]