If anyone wants to know

[Nefmariel]

If anyone wants to know how to WRITE in Elvish I am learning, I can only help you if you want Quenya not Sindarin. pm me or reply to this thread if you are interested. I also speak Quenya not fluently but I can teach you that as well, pm me about that too, or reply to the thread. Quet ana nes rota.

[Viewman]

I really wanna learn :D:D Plz nef :D:D

[Nefmariel]

sure pm me sometime or I may put how to do it on here in a few, do you want to learn how to speak it too?

[Calimehtar]

Do you mean learn to write in Quenya Tengwar? I'd RRREEEAAALLLLLYYYY love to learn that. I am learning to speak Quenya now, like I've already said in this forum a million times. (In case you didnt see the reply to your PM you sent me, the Tolkienology Guild has 5 threads open so far. They are: Common Quenya Course, Quenya Lesson I, Quenya Lesson 2, Quenya Lesson 3, and Quenya Lesson 4. We got the course from the website ARDALAMBION.com
Its a very good course. You might want to check it out. So, I want to learn to write Quenya.

[elvish-queen]

Wow.... where did you learn to write it?? I have the course on how to speak (which I really need to get into), but I've never found out how to write it. It was loosely explained in a book I have, but I never understood the vowels.
EQ

[Calimehtar]

I think Ardalambion.com MIGHT have it... look for something that says TENGWAR. I know you can dowload the fonts where you can type in it. I had it downloaded on my old computer. We are learning to speak Quenya on the Guild of Tolkienology board. We are on Lesson 4, so youll have a little catching up to do

[Ithilin]

me too! i know a few things (hello, bye, you smelly orc, etc..) , but not enough to hold a conversation...
would be cool to write in tengwar, too=)

[Lantarion]

I learned to write the Tengwar (Tengwar of Fëanor, Westron/Black Speech mode) a few yeasr ago, and I still write it on sheets of paper or cards and things. It takes a bit of getting used to, with the vowels above the consonants and everything, but it really isn't all that hard.
I could also offer my outstanding expertise on the subject to help anybody who would like some pointers or tips. :)

PS: All tengwar fonts are increidbly difficult, indeed impossible to write if you canot already write it. If you press the letter 'R', for example, on your keyboard, the letter 't' or 'm' or something in Tengwar will apear. And the vowels are 'hidden', so you have to press Shift and a letter (or number) to even access them, and even then you have to know where to put them! :eek:
So learn it first, then get the font. :)

[BelDain]

The writing is the coolest. You just have to study and get it out of your head that one character relates to one Roman letter. Each character represents a sound. So how you write a word is exactly how you say it. There's no remembering whether you pronounce a 'c' with k or s sound in a word or things like that.

Go to:
Amanye Tenceli - http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/
Dan Smith's Tengwar - http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/index.htm

[ShootingStar]

I would love to learn how to write in elvish! I went on one of those sites and it just comfused me!! someone help me please!!!

[BelDain]

Have you read the Appendix E in The Return of the King?
It explains a lot about how to use the Tengwar.
Basically each character represents one sound.
It's not like with the roman alphabet where one character can represent multiple sounds.
Although the sound each Tengwa represents can vary by mode.

For example: tinco always represents the voiceless dental stop that we know as the 't-' sound.

[Lantarion]

And parma is always a normal 'p' sound from the front of the mouth, and quessë is always a normal 'k' sound, etc. Not that hard really. Tengwar like calma are different when writing Quenya or English. In English calma is a 'ch' sound, in Quenya a normal 'k'.
But anyway, my PM box is open. ;)

[BelDain]

Originally posted by Lantarion
And parma is always a normal 'p' sound from the front of the mouth, and quessë is always a normal 'k' sound, etc. Not that hard really. Tengwar like calma are different when writing Quenya or English. In English calma is a 'ch' sound, in Quenya a normal 'k'.
But anyway, my PM box is open. ;)

Actually quesse is kw(qu) or k depending on the mode.
When the calmatema is used as a palatal series then the quessetema is used as a glottal, rather than labialized, series.

[elven4eva03]

I would so totally learn how to speak elvish!:D If you don't mind in helping me?!It sounds so kool and it seems so awsome. If I could get help on how to speak it I would be do happy. How long would it take too?Thanks.

[xime i love OB]

i want to learn!!!! can u teach me please pleas!!1