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Write Your Name in Elvish in Few Minutes ! |
Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes
You want to write your name in Elvish, but every place you go seems to make it harder than it ought to be.
Elvish writing looks beautiful and mysterious, but does it really have to be impossible to understand? Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in few minutes.
It's not very hard.
Here's the alphabet.
That's it. You only need to know a few more things and you're ready to go. The most important thing is that vowels go above (or below) the consonants. That's what the gray arrows signify in the alphabet shown above. You can put the vowels above the letter they follow (Quenya style) or above the letter they precede (Sindarin style). Take your pick. I do the Quenya style. Look at this example.
Generally the vowels go above the consonants, but sometimes, in the case of Y and silent E, they go below. Here's another example. This one includes a special symbol, a straight line underneath the consonant, that indicates a doubled consonant. Use this "doubling symbol" with any consonant.
The straight line underneath is just one way to make one character do the work of two. There are a number of Elvish letters that stand for two letters of our alphabet. Think of this as a supplementary alphabet.
The line above a consonant means that a nasal N or M precedes the consonant in question. In the next example, we use the nasal modifier and we see what to do with vowels when there's no consonant in the right place to put it above.
Here's one last example with two different letter combinations.
How to handle double vowel situations. Remember to use the carrier as shown above in the ANDY example. Here are some examples that illustrate some of the situations that come up.
That's all you need to get started. Enjoy !
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