Here's To You Guys!

Okay, so; in a strange spurt of geekiness today, I started writing down everyone's name in Tengwar, which is the Elvish script of Tolkien's making. In tribute to our faithful membership, I have collected these doodlings into a little collage-type-thing that I shall post here.

NOTE: Anyone can learn to do Tengwar for English. I used this resource as my basic guide, and this one for help with vowels and diphthongs.

ANOTHER NOTE: I have probably made tons of mistakes doing these; since I am yet a novice. Also, some of this is a little messy; forgive my poor calligraphy. Finally, I've hacked some of the usernames so they fit Tengwar better (i.e, Roo's name is just Kangaroos, since I didn't have numbers available to me).

FINAL NOTE: Sorry about the accidental 'i' in 'skrbblz', skrbblz.

Here she is:

Very nice job Teele, me likey the elven language and bow to your linguistic expertise.

All the names look so mystical in elven. Great job Teele.

Oh sweet!! I love it! To take the time and to do this is fantastic! yay Teele! All hail the mighty Teele!

yay~ funness! thankies, thankies.

LOL Teele you'r name traslated is just 2 charicters? LOL My elvish name is bigger than yours.

(Jade's elvish name is HUGE!) LOL

This is really cool! Ty, Teele. *hugs!*

Thanks, guys! -hugs to Fox!-

And yup! Generally speaking, the number of actual characters in a name spelled in Tengwar will be equal to the number of consonant sounds. This is because the Tengwar is what's called an abjad; each consonant sound has its own letter, and the vowel sounds are handled by diacritics (little marks above the letters).

Thus, the first character in my name (the thing that looks like a 'P') is the letter for the 't' sound. The second character is the 'l' sound, and the little marks above it indicate the 'ee' sound between the two.

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Soyeah. That's how it works. Thanks guys!

ok. my head hurts now!

Brain implosion is imminent, blackhole warning imminent.

Oeh, phonology. A topic I actualy study! (although I just started)

To bad noone has a tripthong in his name, just to mess with ya Maybe I'll go translate myself once I've studied the actual English phonology a bit more.

Great job mate, I'm honoured to be top-left

Yay. This is cool

Awesome For some reason it's reminding me of translating things to/from the phonetic alphabet in school. In a good way.

Jade extraho spectaculum
vulgaris supellectilis
nex vesica 15

LOL and because I was bored a few of your names in latin. Jade is first (obviously) then common goods, and then DB. I like DB's the best, Nex Vesica. It sounds cool.

I like it now to start signing my university work with it lol

you know what, I just noticed the nex vesica, I think that'll be my name

Ahh it's my fault for confusing myself! (Your name change!)

chad.sims2 wrote:

Jade extraho spectaculum
vulgaris supellectilis
nex vesica 15

LOL and because I was bored a few of your names in latin. Jade is first (obviously) then common goods, and then DB. I like DB's the best, Nex Vesica. It sounds cool.

... Why the hell does my name have to sound like a freaking STD...

CommonGoods wrote:

chad.sims2 wrote:

Jade extraho spectaculum
vulgaris supellectilis
nex vesica 15

LOL and because I was bored a few of your names in latin. Jade is first (obviously) then common goods, and then DB. I like DB's the best, Nex Vesica. It sounds cool.

... Why the hell does my name have to sound like a freaking STD...

/snickers.

And mine doesn't sound that good either :p

LOL CG's an STD LOL.

You watch your tongue chad, or you may just get me

heeeeeey, sooooo.... i did some of your names in japanese hehe~ my handwriting isn't much and there are plenty of errors and some of the names have more possibilities for better translations, but here goes~

First up we have, from the top: Deathblade (the easiest one, sounds like "shiba" and means very literally "death blade"), Gloom (sounds like "Yuushuu" and means "deep contemplation, meditation and gloom"), Skrbblz (sounds like "Rakugaki" which means scribble or graffiti) and Fayte ("Unmei" meaning literally "fate" -- "un" by itself is luck and "mei" by itself is life)



Next up we have, from the top: Shadow Dragon (also very easy one, sounds like "KageRyuu" and meaning the literal), Common Goods (pronounced "KyoutsuHin" and also verrrrry literally translated where the first two characters mean "common" and the last means "goods"), and Blossom (pronounced "Saki" and the verb-y kind of form of her literal name)



And finally, we have Jade who gets a special one because hers is sooooo long. The first two characters mean literally jade/emerald, the middle one is dragon (same as the one in SD's) and the last two mean spectre/ghost/phantom. There were tons of things to choose from for the last bit, nothing meaning quite spectre. I almost went with vengeful spirit (mononoke <- you guys might know that one, eh?) but anyways, altogether it sounds something like "Suigyoku Ryu Yuurei"



Enjoy~

Wow! Excellent job, Roo. Makes me with my username had a literal meaning of some sort.

Love it! That's awesome Roo

Beautiful, Roo.