Guides for Tengwar and Runes

by Per Lindberg

See also our indices of Tengwa, Certh, and Rune specimina: DTS, DCS and [pdf] DRS.

For a guide on writing English with Tengwar, please see Amanye Tenceli: Tengwar – English General Use by guild-member Elros.

Quenya Tengwainen - Writing Quenya with Tengwar

This paper describes how Quenya can be written with Tengwar.

Tîw i lam Thindrim - Writing Sindarin with Tengwar

This paper describes how Sindarin can be written with Tengwar.

Writing Numbers with Tengwar

This paper describes how numerals can be written with Tengwar.

Att skriva svenska med tengwar

This paper describes (in Swedish) how Swedish can be written with Tengwar.

Tolkien’s English Runes

This paper describes Tolkien's use of English runes in The Hobbit (not to be confused with the Cirth).

Att skriva svenska med runorna i Hobbiten

This paper describes (in Swedish) how the runes of The Hobbit are used for writing Swedish in Hobbiten, the new translation.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks go to the guild members for valuable criticism on earlier versions of my papers.

These documents would have been impossible to write without the tengwar fonts of Måns Björkman, Dan Smith and Johan Winge.