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  1. elventales

    Sindarin Name Help

    I'm a new member here, but I have found in the dusty corners of my files a Sindarin elf character entitled "Rûdhel". A bit of looking into the name reveals it is simply the word for "bald" with the suffix "-el" attached. I have no idea why that word was chosen except that I quite like the sound...
  2. kate

    help need in reading tengwar

    in past few days i am thinking of purchasing a skirt that designer state that it is embroider with sindarin 'may star shine on your road', however i find the designer hard to believe as in his another middle earth theme skirt the elf are having wings, so i'm here to see if anyone can read...
  3. NekoYashi

    I need help with a “TRANSLATION”, please!

    Mae govannen everyone, I’m a new member and I’m very happy to have joined. I hope someone can help me with this. I’ve been trying to translate the phrase “Feel my Heart” in Quenya and transcribing it in Tengwar Annatar Italics, for a possible VERY FIRST tattoo ever. I’ve been doing some...
  4. J

    Need help to translate two words from english to sindarin

    Hello Guys, I need Your help, I want to translate two words from English to Sindarin the words are : - Turtle - Fox It is for a wedding ring engraving🤘 Thank you very much in advance :)
  5. T

    Translation Sindarin + Tengwar

    Hi, i'm new here! I came here searching for help, I'm tring to get a hold of elvic translations and It's really hard, also because english is not my first language. I'm planning to finally do a tattoo and i want the phrase to be accurate. The phrase is a cit. from Arwen: "I would rather share...
  6. M

    Help needed re Sindarin + Tengwar

    There's so much info on the various languages of middle earth and the various translation types online that it is quite overwhelming! This place seems to have the human experts vs the machine, which keeps giving me different results, and this is for a tattoo so I would like it to be as accurate...
  7. K

    Strider's Riddle. Is this passable in Sindarin + Tengwar

    I know there are newer versions and multiple translations, but this is the only version I can find with videos of people actually pronouncing it. I want to learn to pronounce it as well as get a tattoo of this poem. Please let me know what you think, as well as if you know of better versions...
  8. Kai Eryndae

    🧝Elven Sindarin scroll

    As part of a D&D prop, I wanted to make an Elven scroll inscribed with Tengwar. Although I studied to write in texts such as Cirth and Tengwar, I don't not speak any of the correlating languages. I am a long standing DM and have made many IRL props to accompany the game, including ones the...
  9. L

    English - Sindarin - Tengwar

    Hi, I am new to The Tolkien Forum 😊. Is there anyone with any advice on translating English to Sindarin and then transcribing the text into Tengwar? I have been wanting to get an Elvish tattoo for almost a decade. The one I want in particular is a bit complicated so I need to do further...
  10. S

    Name of my first Dog in Tengwar

    Hey! I wanna get my first dogs name as a tattoo in elvish ( Schaina ). I already did some research and talked to ppl but since its gonna be a tattoo I really need a lot of sources telling me its correct before I get it :) So far 3 ppl told me that this --> "the attached picture" should be the...
  11. H

    Translation Request: "Roll for Initiative"

    Hey y'all! I'm making a custom dice tray for D&D purposes, (it's going to look like a spell book!) and was hoping to enlist some help translating the phrase "Roll for Initiative" to engrave on the front. I'd prefer Sindarin but am open to Quenya, this would be transcribed into Tengwar for its...
  12. W

    Translation from English to Sindarin?

    I know there are so many of these posts already but this is the only place I trust, the online ones don't really seem to be accurate. I was hoping someone could help me translate the phrase, "When the sun shines it will shine out the clearer!" into sindarin and then into tengwar? I'm very...
  13. I

    Sindarin tanslation help for an inscription on a cittern.

    I recently commissioned a renaissance-period cittern from a luthier and I wanted to inscribe in Sindarin somewhere on it the phrase, "This device slayeth despots", an interpretation of the quote, "This machine kills fascists" that Woody Guthrie had written on his guitar. So far, I have two...
  14. M

    Translation help please!

    Hey everyone! I’ve been a Tolkien fan for years and know how to transcribe from English to Tengwar, however I’m still a novice when it comes to the actual languages and translations. I’m wondering if someone with more experience than I can help me translate one of my favorite lines from FOTR...
  15. E

    Hoping for help to transform 🧙Gandalf's words into Sindarin script.

    Evening all, First off, thank you very much for having me here! I'm going to be super unoriginal here and ask for some help translating one of gandalfs famous phrases. I have seen posts before asking for the same thing, but it always gets linked back into tamwar (sorry if I've just butchered...
  16. ZehnWaters

    Name in Sindarin?

    I've looked a number of places to translate but I can't seem to find all of the pieces of my family name in Sindarin (part in Quenya, part in Sinarin). Does anyone know what Fairbanks would be translated? And how it'd look in Tengwar?
  17. PhoenixAl

    I need a Sindarin teacher

    Can anyone teach me Sindarin?
  18. T

    Help with the Sindarin translation for a tattoo

    Hello there! I ask for your help, dear experts. Please help me determine whether such an inscription "love and gratitude" in Sindarin has the right to exist and whether it is correct? I doubt the presence of upper apostrophes above the first letter of the second word. Maybe there are more...
  19. K

    Need help with a translation

    So, a friend sent me an image of a tattoo a little while ago, and it's apparently important that he gets a translation. I'm a pretty big fan of Tolkien's works, having read all of the books as well as the Unfinished Tales and the Silmarillion, but I've been racking my brain for an hour, and...
  20. S

    Need help writing 1 Sindarin phrase!

    For a long time now, I've tried to find a way to translate English into Sindarin, but I usually find the opposite. I need your help for the following: I have named my car Shadowfax and I'd love to put the phrase "Show us the meaning of haste" across the back of it in Sindarin. Could someone...
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