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For the LotR nerd in all of us... how to write your name in elvish

starchamber.com — Why doesn't somebody just spell out the alphabet so you can simply substitute the letters and get straight to the result? That's exactly what I've done here. Learn to write your name in Elvish in ten minutes. It's not very hard.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 18, 2005

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  • bejitunksu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hahahaha, lotr nerds, haha.

    That's actually pretty cool though :D
  • LewsTherin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"So Elvish has exactly the same number of letters in its alphabet as English. Amazing."


    No, it is a different system of writing. This just shows you how to convert between Latin letters and whatever the elvish ones are called.
  • crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Why? Why?
  • dcskate101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats pretty cool

    http://www.h2stats.com
  • Darthpip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Awesome digg!
  • spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Oh you like it and you know it. Don't try to pretend that you don't still live in your moms basement like all the rest of us.
  • mr_cheese28, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I digg it for the geek in me
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So Elvish has exactly the same number of letters in its alphabet as English. Amazing.
  • heartless_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If its on the front page of Digg then chances are there is enough people visiting Digg that liked the link. If you have something better then submit it.

    Just because you think something deservers front page doesn't mean the rest of Digg does or doesn't.
  • AJRiddle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yes, we need a generator! DO IT NOW!
  • DDarkfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Digg effect on the "Tolkien Script Publishing Link."
    Alright folks, now somebody go make an Elvish Name Generator for those of us not blessed with good calligraphy skills... :-P
  • shoei, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0WOW!
  • masterofshadows, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I enjoyed this but it's place isnt on digg. Take this to your blogs or to fark
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't do it for me?
    ***** that!
  • monolith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0spectre_25gt, Yea, after all we ave to share the same computer too. Hey! SolariPicasso's mom! Get me another beer! Thanks!

    Where is that frakin air freshener!

  • dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1WTF? I'm too drunk to figger this ***** out. I digg anyway for when me not so drunkee.
  • monolith, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Your description doesn't do your link justice. Nice, thanks!
  • aaarg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0for the ubernerd in us all ;)
  • ian.gaenssley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You just made my wife very happy, now if I can just get her not to sign checks with this...
  • spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0but how do you do kacey?!
  • J_Omega, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0why do you need a generator? Can't one just install a Tengwar font and apply it to whatever they wish?

    http://www.thehutt.de/tolkien/fonts.html


    "Also, this isn't really Elvish."
    Care to give a link to what REALLY IS ELVISH?
  • Clarendon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Funny how people refer to this as a "crap submission". This site is a great example of the challenges in transliteration (not translation), albeit in a ficticous language. Companies spend millions of dollars trying to transliterate nouns between languages, and there are thousands of ways to do it.

    Don't believe me? Try looking up the name of the ruler of Libya at http://www.qadhafi.org/. His name is transliterated THOUSANDS of different ways into English, but there is only one way to spell it in Arabic. Now imagine you're a researcher or government analyst trying to find information about this ruler. Imagine the query you run against multiple databases and the effort required to group returns. Not easy.

    Companies are working on solutions, but they require a complex understanding of language rules, databases, and software algorithms. The site on elvish is a wonderful introduction into the complex world of linguistics transliterations.
  • LewsTherin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Also, this isn't really Elvish. It's just the script (font) Tolkien used to write Elvish stuff in. Most examples of it from Tolkien's writings are actually in English.
  • kamizu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0"For the LotR nerd in all of us..."

    there is no LotR nerd in many people. keep it to yourself. and J_Omega is right. there's a font out there people. i downloaded it LONG ago, around the time the first movie came out (deleted it later). i don't really get the point in teaching people ficticious orthography. might as well give us high school lessons on the various languages used in star trek, or educated us in the many bleeps R2D2 has shared since the first star wars movie.

    at least esperanto proved itself useful at one point in its history...
  • SolariPicasso, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Talk about 40 year old virgin, don't people have anything better to do than pretend they live in Middle Earth. No DIGG!
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0What's with all the crap submissions being frontpaged today?

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