#tolkien

"Harondor", Sindarin place-name: "Southern Gondor"
Elements: "harn", "Gondor"
References:
- "RC/lxiii": "Harondor"
- "TI/310": "Harondor" ("S. Gondor")
- "TII/Harondor": "Harondor"
https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-2404062765.html

#Tolkien #Tolkiendili

Técnicamente no es la mejor animación, pero como fan de J.R.R. Tolkien he disfrutado mucho "La guerra de los Rohirrim". Y sé que para muchos será un punto a favor, pero en mi opinión bebe demasiado de la trilogía de Peter Jackson, podía separarse más en la iconografía (es que incluso cuando aparece Saruman lo hace con el rostro y caracterización de Christopher Lee en las películas). De hecho, cuando se atreve a imaginar diría que refleja la Tierra Media mejor que la versión en cine.

Los decorados y paisajes son bellísimos, a veces parecen pintados por Alan Lee; apuesto a que sus ilustraciones han servido de inspiración para esta reconstrucción de la Tierra Media.

#cinemastodon #cine #anime #tolkien #pelis

Q: Why did Beren love Lúthien?

A: Because she was the best of all the Lays of Beleriand.

#tolkien

« I am, however, primarily a philologist and to some extent a calligrapher (though this letter may make that difficult to believe). »

Wrote Tolkien in 1956 in a letter (letter n° 187).

Image = Tolkien's manuscript and calligraphy

#tolkien #calligraphy #calligrapher #tengwar

I have a problem.

Is it possible to have 2 glyphs for 1 ligature in OpenType?

Thanks for your help.

#opentype #Tolkien #tengwar

"I asked Polygon’s resident sports gamer, Samit Sarkar, to tell me some things about the Masters Tournament, and it seems to have a number of parallels to The Lord of the Rings, what with an all-male group of heroes battling to win a precious, worn object that has known many bearers over its long history. Honestly, that all sounds very tiring — maybe someone should just cast it into a fire."

https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/556864/masters-tournament-golf-hobbits-tolkien

#Tolkien #golf #hobbits

Gamla översättningen av Bilbo översätter goblins till vättar. Ok rimligt, men lite svårläst.

#Tolkien

"o-", Quenya pref: "together"
References:
- "PE17/013": "o-"
- "PE17/016": "o-"
- "PE17/191": "ŏ-´"
- "PE19/106": "wa-"
- "PE19/106": "o-"
- "PE22/168": "ó"
- "VT48/29": "ŏ"
- "WJ/367": "ó-"
- "WJ/367": "o-"
https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-3022220127.html

#Tolkien #Tolkiendili

Wow I didn’t knew #ToveJansson did illustrate #Tolkien’s The Hobbit

I was very surprised to meet young Feench typographers who know Tolkien and his Tengwar, but do not understand why the Tengwar need to have their own modern design (stabilization) and not simply make copies of the few Tolkien's calligraphies they know.
Tolkien experimented extensively with Elvish calligraphy. My goal is to provide the public with several Tengwar fonts and pave the way for other typographers and designers.
Image = Tolkien's manuscript.

#tolkien #tengwar #elvishtypography

Tolkien knew the history of typography. He taught medieval paleography at Oxford University. I believe he gave to a Hobbit the name Bolger Griffo (see Appendix C of "The Lof of the Rings") to honor the Italian punch-cutter Francesco Griffo.

#tolkien #griffo #historicaltypography #tengwar

#ThrowbackThursday with this 2022 map of one of my oldest passions: my mother used to read Bilbo to us to put us to sleep, I read all Tolkien works and try to learn Sindarin during my teens, Jackson's trilogy is my favorite movie since I saw FOTR at the theater at 9 y.o, I try to read LOTR & Silmarillion regularly...

It took an eternity to tool and another eternity to lace. Hoping to do the Beleriand one one day !

#lotr #tolkien #geek #leathercraft #leatherart #fantasy #mastoart #fantasyart

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel" written by Tolkien in "The Road Goes Ever On" and in Tengwar Font.

The capital E is not my invention but a variant "e" used sometimes by Elves (according to Tolkien).

I find it convenient to differentiate Capital Tengwar when it is a "historically" correct form in Middle-earth.

The dot over the i are simply a variant in this mode. It helps reading I believe.

#tolkien #sindarin #tengwar #elvishtypography

The name Imladris written by Tolkien in Tengwar in the "mode of Beleriand" (as appropriate since it is a Sindarin word). This is printed in the book "The Road Goes Ever On".

And in Tengwar Font.

The capital I (i) in Tengwar has never been spotted by the previous Tengwar Font designer.
I think it has an arm to differentiate it from another Tengwar looking very much like it, called "gasdil", and noting a lost g in Sindarin: i ’Olodh, the Noldo. And gasdil is just a stem.

#tengwar #Tolkien

"† airon", Quenya n: "ocean"
Archaic or poetic word
References:
- "PE17/027": "airon"
- "PE17/149": "airon" ("(?ocean)")
https://eldamo.org/content/words/word-1084314337.html

#Tolkien #Tolkiendili

Also the next sentence is "[Dragons] can't make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour."

Which suggests that Tolkien's thought is maybe that dragon's scales are not grown but built??

In Chapter 12, Smaug says "I am armoured above and below with iron scales and hard gems".

All of which may just be poetic language from Tolkien. But what if it isn't? What if dragons commission armour from master smiths?

#ttrpg #osr #hobbit #tolkien #dragons

@hirunatan
Yes it is one of my Horcrux!
But not the oldest one.
I published a fanzine in 1990. I sold it in several Paris’ bookshops, about 200.
#Tolkien #Elvish #dictionary #fanzine

As a #LOTR fan, it's incredibly annoying that Peter Thiel's terrible techno-police-state companies are named after Westernese artifacts and other names borrowed from Tolkien's lore. There's Palantir, which makes population surveillance tech, and Andruil, which is building the ED-209 "peace-keeping machine" from Robocop. Then there are Valar Ventures and Mithril Capital.

Dude, Tolkien was against everything you stand for! I feel like #Tolkien did when the Nazis started appropriating Germanic mythology and the Ring Cycle.

https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/