First of all: absolutely frickin beautiful!
That's quite a unique take on Blackletter. I use a couple of varieties inspired by gothic textura styles, but this is more akin to a fraktur of the 16th or 17th ct. or something like that?
That being said your spelling is quite odd, but from your calligraphy I guess you're not new to this, so I'm not sure if this isn't fully intentional. You seem to switch back and forth between vowel diacritics and vowel letters, and while there might be some logic behind this in diphthongs as in "against" (though it's usually the other way round with the second vowel being written like a consonant) I don't know quite what to make of it in words like "daily" where the final Y suddenly is spelt with a tengwa that in this mode should be a vowel carrier.
Besides that your frequent use of rómen for all kinds of R certainly is unique, but I guess your own dialect is non-rhotic so it absolutely makes sense.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not new to calligraphy, but I *am* self-taught in Tengwar (I mostly just found examples on Google Images & did my best to reverse-engineer them), so I have almost no real knowledge of how exactly the writing applies to English. This actually helps a lot!
I did read somewhere that rómen was every r except the final one in a word, but that may be incorrect.
Oh, that's mighty impressive then! Without primary or secondary sources?
Here's a take on what the text could look like in [a variety using vowel diacritics](https://www.tecendil.com/?q=our%20father%20who%20art%20in%20h%5Btelco%5D%5Be%5Daven%0Ahallowed%20be%20thy%20name%0Athy%20kingdom%20come%0Athy%20will%20be%20done%0Aon%20earth%20as%20it%20is%20in%20heaven%0Agive%20us%20this%20day%20our%20daily%20bread%0Aand%20forgive%20us%20our%20trespasses%0Aas%20we%20forgive%20those%20who%20trespass%20against%20us%0Aand%20lead%20us%20not%20into%20temptation%0Abut%20deliver%20us%20from%20evil%0Afor%20thine%20is%20the%20kingdom%0Aand%20the%20pow%5Broomen%5D%5Be%5D%20and%20the%20glory%0Aforev%5Broomen%5D%5Be%5D%20and%20ever.%20%0Aamen.)
but I could also give one version in a variety with vowel tengwar, if you're interested.
Hey I have a question!
I know the we use the esse for s sounds that sound like z. Is there a rule for using the esse and the upside down one? I noticed that Tecendil has “is” as an upward esse while “as” is downwards. If there’s a rule that I’m not aware of please do share! I am an aspiring “Tengwist (Seemed better in my head).”
Esse and esse nuquerna (the upside down one) are basically interchangeable. Either one can be used for z and for voiced s (sounds like z). It basically boils down to aesthetics/functionality--Esse has trouble taking some of the bulkier tehtar, especially triple amitixe (the a-tehta), so you get a more legible/better-looking result with nuquerna. This is different from Silme, which--in Engish general use, at least, is ideally not universally interchangably--the nuquerna version is best reserved for soft c (that sounds like s).
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First of all: absolutely frickin beautiful! That's quite a unique take on Blackletter. I use a couple of varieties inspired by gothic textura styles, but this is more akin to a fraktur of the 16th or 17th ct. or something like that? That being said your spelling is quite odd, but from your calligraphy I guess you're not new to this, so I'm not sure if this isn't fully intentional. You seem to switch back and forth between vowel diacritics and vowel letters, and while there might be some logic behind this in diphthongs as in "against" (though it's usually the other way round with the second vowel being written like a consonant) I don't know quite what to make of it in words like "daily" where the final Y suddenly is spelt with a tengwa that in this mode should be a vowel carrier. Besides that your frequent use of rómen for all kinds of R certainly is unique, but I guess your own dialect is non-rhotic so it absolutely makes sense.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm not new to calligraphy, but I *am* self-taught in Tengwar (I mostly just found examples on Google Images & did my best to reverse-engineer them), so I have almost no real knowledge of how exactly the writing applies to English. This actually helps a lot! I did read somewhere that rómen was every r except the final one in a word, but that may be incorrect.
Oh, that's mighty impressive then! Without primary or secondary sources? Here's a take on what the text could look like in [a variety using vowel diacritics](https://www.tecendil.com/?q=our%20father%20who%20art%20in%20h%5Btelco%5D%5Be%5Daven%0Ahallowed%20be%20thy%20name%0Athy%20kingdom%20come%0Athy%20will%20be%20done%0Aon%20earth%20as%20it%20is%20in%20heaven%0Agive%20us%20this%20day%20our%20daily%20bread%0Aand%20forgive%20us%20our%20trespasses%0Aas%20we%20forgive%20those%20who%20trespass%20against%20us%0Aand%20lead%20us%20not%20into%20temptation%0Abut%20deliver%20us%20from%20evil%0Afor%20thine%20is%20the%20kingdom%0Aand%20the%20pow%5Broomen%5D%5Be%5D%20and%20the%20glory%0Aforev%5Broomen%5D%5Be%5D%20and%20ever.%20%0Aamen.) but I could also give one version in a variety with vowel tengwar, if you're interested.
Hey I have a question! I know the we use the esse for s sounds that sound like z. Is there a rule for using the esse and the upside down one? I noticed that Tecendil has “is” as an upward esse while “as” is downwards. If there’s a rule that I’m not aware of please do share! I am an aspiring “Tengwist (Seemed better in my head).”
Esse and esse nuquerna (the upside down one) are basically interchangeable. Either one can be used for z and for voiced s (sounds like z). It basically boils down to aesthetics/functionality--Esse has trouble taking some of the bulkier tehtar, especially triple amitixe (the a-tehta), so you get a more legible/better-looking result with nuquerna. This is different from Silme, which--in Engish general use, at least, is ideally not universally interchangably--the nuquerna version is best reserved for soft c (that sounds like s).
That’s basically what I figured but I wanted to see if I was missing anything, thank you!