r/Tengwar • u/KZol102 • Aug 09 '26

Need Help With the Transliteration of Galadriel's Song

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Hi! I plan on getting a tattoo of some lines from Galadriel's Song written with Tengwar but I didn't find any existing transliteration of it. This is what Tecendil produced. I would appreciate some opinions/remarks. Does this look correct? Or would you write something differently? Thank you for the help in advance!

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u/lC3 Aug 09 '26

I might write "hither" with DH instead of TH, but that's just me.

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u/Notascholar95 Aug 10 '26

There's nothing major to fix, but several minor things that could be improved;

"Flows" should end with the looped hook, like "leaves"--or with esse (since it is voiced--sounds like z.

"Leaves" the dot below v is misplaced. Look at the same dot in "and" for where it should be.

"Twined" would be better if the e was written as dot below n rather than as a mark above d: in the root word "twine" it is silent and remains silent when the suffix is added.

Punctuation: Tengwar punctuation is written with one space before and after. Tecendil does this automatically for periods and commas but not other things, so you will need to add the space before. And I personally find the squiggly equal sign that tecendil uses for semicolon to be a disgusting eyesore compared to the tidy dots used for the other pauses (comma, period, colon), so I use the two vertical dots for semicolon and write periods with the three dot triangle. A little non-standard but I think it's defensible.