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Originally Posted by elwin starfyre
thank you, Galin! This morning, I decided, that instead of spelling the words phonetically, I'm going to spell them exactly as they are.
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A good choice. I would call this an orthographic approach but I will note too that Tolkien himself, when using a largely othographic approach, still transcribes the voiced s (z) with the character for z. Note the suggestion at
Amanye Tenceli under 'General Use' Orthograhic (for English):
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Originally Posted by Amanye Tenceli
The general rule of the English orthographic spelling is that each tengwa or tehta corresponds to a specific letter or sequence of letters in the Roman alphabet. However, on some points the system does not adhere strictly to Roman orthography. For instance, the voiced pronunciations of th and s ([ð] and [z]) are distinguished from their voiceless counterparts. In addition, the spelling sometimes deviates from the orthographic, in favor of a more accurate representation of the pronunciation. Thus the tehta for i can be used for the final vowel in history, and the tehta for o is used to represent the vowel in war.
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Far less confusing, and I will feel more confident that they're correct. The only remaining question is, since I'm transcribing English into Tengwar, could I use the Quenya or Sindarin modes, or do I have to use carriers for each of the tehtar? I saw somewhere that someone had done this and claimed it to be the "English" mode for tengwar. I personally think the way the tattoo looks in the Quenya mode is pretty neat, I like it alot, but I'm shooting for accuracy now.
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In my opinion something Tolkien himself published would be a great example to follow then, and so I would place the vowels as they are found in
The Lord of the Rings title page (lower inscription). Here they are put above the following tengwar (when available of course), and with Tolkien's transcription of
Ronald you have a good example of an o-tehta and an a-tehta (three dot version) 'next to each other' atop the consonants.
I would use the underposed dot to indicate silent e.