A Question Concerning Tengwar.

[Galin]

Originally Posted by elwin starfyre

i decided on the tattoo, it will say "rise above," however i have a question concerning a couple of the variants, firstly, would i use the trilled or untrilled version of "r?"

I would use the character called rómen (the one that kind of looks like a y).

secondly, the s...would i use the symbol for "s" or "z"? i read in the appendix that a good way to transcribe english using tengwar was phonetically, but when i say the word "rise" aloud, it seems like it could go either way.

I would use the character for z.

i also am wondering if i would use a long carrier for the a in "above"...? i looked at a generator and it didn't use a carrier, it just placed the tehta for "a" over the symbol for "b", and crowded in the "o" tehta as well, in my opinion it looked a bit messy.

In my opinion you could use a circumflex instead of three dots (following the description in Return of the King). Or use a pen and paper and adjust the tehtar better.

You could also write English in a full mode as JRRT does in his English versions of the King's Letter. In this mode a = vilya (number 24 on the chart in the book). To see the rest of the English examples you might have to buy the book Sauron Defeated, or Vinyar Tengwar 29 which reproduces the second set of texts (and looks at usage in all six examples).