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Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems tomake it harder than it ought to be. Elvish writing looks beautiful andmysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Whydoesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simplysubstitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly whatI've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in ten minutes. It's notvery hard.

Here's the alphabet.

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That's it. (If you want details about where this all comes from, look at the bottom of this page.) You onlyneed to know a few more things and you're ready to go. The most important thing is that vowels goabove (or below) the consonants . That's what the gray arrows signify in the alphabet shown above.You can put the vowels above the letter they follow (Quenya style) or above the letter they precede(Sindarin style). Take your pick. I do the Quenya style. Look at this example.

1. Write the name : ROBERT.

2. Shift the vowels up and to the left, so they areabove the letters they follow.

3. Substitute the letters using the alphabet

provided above. Notice there are two forms forthe letter R . One is for the R sound as in RED. Theother is for the R sound as in CAR. The nameROBERT starts with the R as in RED sound andnear its end it has the R as in CAR sound.

4. Here's the text notation . I find it useful to use aplain text representation of the characters when I'm

explaining things via email. The underscores at thebeginning and end show where the baseline is.

O E_ R B R T _

5. All the examples on this page are use theQuenya style, but here's the text notation for


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Sindarin (not shown in calligraphy) so you can seehow the vowel positions shift to the right.

O E_ R B R T _

Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they gobelow. Here's another example. This one includes a special symbol, a straight line underneath theconsonant, that indicates a doubled consonant. Use this "doubling symbol" with any consonant.

1. Write the name : LYNNE.

2. Shift the vowels down and to the left, so theyare below the letters they follow.

3. Make letter combinations . Doubledconsonants can be combined into one space.

4. Substitute the letters using the alphabet


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provided above. Use the bar underneath the N tosignify it is doubled.

5. Here's the text notation . Most of the actionoccurs below the baseline. I'm using squarebrackets to indicate letter combinations that resultin a single letterform.

_ L [NN] _Y E

The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. There are anumber of Elvish letters that stand for two letters of our alphabet. Think of this as a supplementary


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alphabet.


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The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. In the nextexample, we use the nasal modifier and we see what to do with vowels when there's no consonant inthe right place to put it above.

1. Write the name : ANDY.

2. Shift the vowels . The Y goes down and to theleft. Since the letter A has no consonant to slideabove, it goes on a carrier, which is just a straightline that fills in for the job a consonant wouldnormally do. Note that the carrier is just a graphicalconvention and has no bearing on pronunciation.

3. Make letter combinations using the

supplementary letters: N + D = ND.4. Substitute the letters . The vowel placeholder isa short straight line. The nasal N preceding D isdenoted by a straight line above the D.

5. Here's the text notation . I'm using the colonsymbol : for the vowel carrier symbol.

A_ : [ND] _

Y


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Here's one last example with two different letter combinations.

1. Write the name : SHELDON.

2. Shift the vowels .

3. Make letter combinations using thesupplementary letters: S + H = SH. L + D = LD.

4. Substitute the letters .

5. Here's the text notation .

E 0_ [SH] [LD] N _


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I am often asked how to handle double vowel situations. Remember to use the carrier as shown abovein the ANDY example. Here are some examples that illustrate some of the situations that come up.

Name: ADRIANText notation:

A I A_ : D R : N _


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Name: EILEENText notation:

E I [EE]_ : : L N _

Comment: This is a dramatic example of doubledup vowels. The name starts with two vowels, leavingus no choice but to use two carriers in a row. Weuse a little artistic freedom with the double E at theend, since they fit nicely over the L. It would havebeen, however, perfectly reasonable to spell it likethis.Text notation:

E I E E

_ : : L : N _

Name: DIETRICHText notation:

I E I_ D : T R [CH] _

Name: AMELIEText notation:

A E I_ : M L _

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Comment: Here again we're using a littleexpressive freedom for compactness. The silent Eat the end is placed under the L and assumed tofollow the voiced I above the L. You can alwaysspell it like this if you want to be absolutely clear.Text notation:

A E I E_ : M L : _

That's all you need to get started. If you take a real interest in Elvish and want to learn more, there's alot of good information out there for you.

Please be aware that there are many ways to write English words in Elvish . This is just the onethat I use. I have tried to keep it very simple here. There are dozens of sites that can lead you through

the nitty gritty details. The best one I have come across yet is Tolkien Script Publishing . You can learnabout all details that I glossed over here.

Good luck!

Ned Gulley

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