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Shameless Question Regarding Translation for Tattoo

The royal branch used Taliska
"Taliska" is not a thing. It was a thing, but it no longer is, in the canonical post-LotR Legendarium. Plus, its speakers were the houses of Bëor and Haleth, whereas post-LotR writings instead refer to "Bëorian & Hadorian" as similar while noting that "Halethian" was distinct, which again leaves no room for "Taliska", besides the fact that in the pre-LotR concept it was a "Danian" (later "Nandorin") language, unlike the distinct (i.e. unrelated to Elvish) languages which led to Adûnayân.
 

That will be an awesome tattoo.
 
Well, whatever it's called, I couldn't call it Adunaic because Númenor didn't exist yet in the story.
 
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