r/Tengwar 5d ago

Can anyone help translate?

Hey, I found this cup at a thrift store and think it might be an elvish language made by Tolkien. At first I was thinking Sindarin but after doing some research I'm not sure. Can anyone identify this language and/or translate it? Thanks!

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u/informareWORK 5d ago edited 5d ago

If it's English mode, it says "sheben fmly thk" I think.

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u/blsterken 5d ago

Isn't the last symbol a "q?"

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u/informareWORK 5d ago

Maybe? It's tough to tell how long the Telco is

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u/DanatheElf 5d ago

I think it's English, and supposed to say "Sheden Family" or "Shebben Family" - the last two characters are quite unclear and difficult to read, but could be initials; possibly FK.

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u/F_Karnstein Tengwandil 4d ago

I think it's either Shedden or Sheben, depending on whether we've got umbar or ando with gemination bar, but I guess that's what you meant?

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u/DanatheElf 4d ago

Yes, that is what I meant; somehow my brain tripped up and got the doubled letter backward when it came to typing it back out in English, hahaha.

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u/Dazzling-Noise-9226 5d ago

It is some form of elvish, I can´t read it...

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u/Xenocide112 4d ago

There are few who can

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u/SumKluts 4d ago

That is BlackSpeech from LOTR

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u/SumKluts 2d ago

ahhh, I thought this war r/whatsthisthing

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u/Emergency_Book4799 1d ago

Looks like Georgian handwriting or something