Your Sindarin Textbook
Chapter Two, Lesson Three: Númenórean Tengwar
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The Númenóreans preferred to use an adaption of the Tengwar that was much closer to that of Quenya, and they used it for Adûnaic as well. You will notice many similarities to the script of Beleriand, but be careful not to confuse the two. Consonant ModifiersThis mode depends much more heavily on the consonant modifiers than the Mode of Beleriand. As you can see from the chart above, almost none of the fourth-column consonants are used. The "N" ModifierIt can be drawn as a tilde or a simple bar. It is used for nasal+stop combinations. The "W" ModifierBe careful to distinguish this symbol from the N modifier. It is used for consonant+w combinations, except for HW. The Geminate ModifierIt makes one letter into two letters. MM and NN can be made with either the N modifier or the geminate modifier. It is a bar underneath the letter, though L tends to be a bit weird. When handwritten, it's a slanted line, but in typeface, you'll see it as a line parallel to the top stroke of the L.
VowelsUnlike the Mode of Beleriand, where the vowels are their own letters, in this mode, the vowels are diacritics put over the top or underneath of the consonant that follows them. When they aren't followed by a consonant, they are put on the short carrier, "telco". When the vowels are long, they aren't put on a consonant. Instead, they are put on a long carrier, "ára". For some of them, you can put two of the vowel symbols over a consonant to show a long vowel, but that doesn't work for A, I, or Y. Using Ára instead is easier.
Putting It To UseThe punctuation marks are the same as they are in the Mode of Beleriand. So, this is what it looks like:
HomeworkWrite this poem in tengwar, scan, and send it to me. Gil-galad aran edhellen. Megil dîn anann, ech dîn laeg, Palan-nerant 'wachae io and |
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