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Is my 🧝elvish tattoo wording accurate (Quenya)

knifehead

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Hello there, hope that everyone's having a nice day ☺️
I'm from Brazil and i'd like to tattoo the word "always", i'm trying to do something between LOTR and HP, so the idea's using elvish or Quenya for it
I searched for it and tried using tecendil, but i'm pretty confused because i've seen a few places that says the S (silme) in 'always' isn't reversed, but the tengwar handbook shows both versions (inversed and normal and i'm confused :confused:)
so far, i have these 3 options, being the last one, illumë (translation Quenya from elfdict)
Please help and thank you in advance ☺️
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Welcome, @knifehead. 🙂
You'll have to be patient until one of our language mavens comes by. Check out our forum while you wait!
 
The Tengwar spelling of Q. illumë begins with a short carrier and an I-tehta which together look like our "i". Then comes an L-tengwa with a line/dash in the middle and a U-tehta above the entire sign. And after that, an M-tengwa with an E-tehta ( / ) above it.

I recommend trying Online Tengwar Transcriber and Tecendil (i.e. see if you get the same result from both). Just remember to first select the MODE per the language that you are using -- either Quenya or English.
 

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