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This is largely correct, but "largely" isn't the same as "entirely" and there are some major blunders. (For heaven's sake don't use it for that tattoo!) The f
by Steuard 16y ago
This is largely correct, but "largely" isn't the same as "entirely" and there are some major blunders. (For heaven's sake don't use it for that tattoo!)
The first big one is that there is no letter for 'c' in any Elvish alphabet. Elvish writing systems are phonetic, so English 'c' has to be written with the character for 'k' or 's' as appropriate. (The character this site lists for 'c' is what Tolkien usually used for the English 'ch' sound. The character later listed for 'ch' corresponds to the sound in the word "loch" or perhaps German "ich".)
There are a number of similar errors later on, most of which boil down to the same issue: Elvish alphabets aren't just a substitution cipher! They're a distinct encoding of linguistic data.