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Linguist - ConLang Tolkien. A Gen X trying to become an Elvish Type designer.
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2025-10-25 16:45:20 UTC

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@nprofile…2fal maybe there is some misunderstanding. 🤔 Because I agree with you. 👍
My .notdef glyph will be made only of the "NO TENGWA" (text) and nothing else (no punctuation).
An equivalent of the usual/comon "NO GLYPH" (used in GLYPHS app).
The word tengwa means "letter" in the Quenya language. Those using this Font will know the Elvish word Tengwa and its meaning as it will be part of the Font Name.

2025-10-25 16:06:12 UTC

My "notdef glyph" within Elvish (angle) brackets — brackets are always angle brackets in Tengwar — and some other punctuation glyphs that are not used as Latin punctuation, these will be explained in the PDF provided with the Tengwar Fonts.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/435/656/654/045/209/original/67a5aeeba5067dd2.png

2025-10-21 19:57:40 UTC

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@nprofile…t9uc yes

2025-10-21 11:34:37 UTC

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@nprofile…t9uc https://youtu.be/WacTmIUf930?si=96dh1KNBZ0GZOi4h

2025-10-12 11:15:11 UTC

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@nprofile…98sm Thanks. Another book for me to read, and study.
So I got a copy.
Some of the "tips" (explanations) and figures do apply to the Tengwar as well. Very useful indeed.

2025-10-04 22:21:09 UTC

What is the mode of Beleriand? It is the mode used on the Doors of Moria.
The text is Sindarin. But when Tolkien drew for the first time the tengwar text, Sindarin did not exist. The language was called Noldorin and the text of the doors did go through several modifications. The most important being the removal of the mutations of almost all the Noldorin words: Dhurin for Durin, Vória for Mória (later Moria) and mhellon for mellon "friend".
One mutated word remained thiw (tiw) "letters".
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/318/224/751/907/111/original/6c318fb6b6fb4683.png

2025-07-29 18:57:49 UTC

These are the 2 "styles" of "Tengwar Sans" I am working on right now.
I have some idea for a 3rd one. Will show in a few days.
Feedback is welcome!
Don't be shy.
Say what you think.
#tolkien #tengwar #elvishtypography
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/938/044/315/633/167/original/f041a7055117308a.png

2025-07-27 18:55:57 UTC

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@nprofile…qx50 @nprofile…musy @nprofile…yakj Fortunately available for free to anyone to read here:
https://archive.org/details/WADtoRR1940

2025-07-18 13:02:44 UTC

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@nprofile…qx50 I am not really concerned about Tolkien's Middle-earth†.
I am concerned rather about the design of my Tengwar Sans. I could go humanist sans-serif or more geometric or maybe even mixing the 2 into a new unique "tengwar style".
(† it must be written that way — not Middle Earth — because it is simply an English name for Europe, still used with than meaning.)

2025-07-18 10:34:37 UTC

I am still unsure about my Tengwar Sans.
Do I go Gill Sans or do I go Futura?
My goal is to make the Tengwar feel closer, easy to read, modern, not "Fantasy" or "Middle-earth" anymore. Both Gill Sans and Futura are great directions but I have to choose only one. No? I should not "mix"? Any thought?
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/873/770/571/757/316/original/95bc7646f0242b7a.png
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/873/778/435/731/401/original/555784f4717b10e4.png

2025-07-17 16:02:53 UTC

Day 1: reading and thinking.
#tengwar #typedesign
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/869/411/761/076/993/original/c3afb15c0bf95267.png

2025-07-17 10:14:35 UTC

I'm in! My stay at letterspace.amsterdam
@nprofile…8g5d is to better my knowledge of Type making and design of the Tengwar. It's a privilege to work among such professionals.
#tolkien #tengwar #typedesign
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/868/037/235/417/496/original/7beb42701dad2174.png

2025-07-08 08:54:30 UTC

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@nprofile…2qv9 Love Brunel! 😍 So much better than the 'static' Parisine Font, I'm used too as a Parisian.

2025-07-08 04:23:51 UTC

94 then 93 followers... going up and down.
Still, not yet 100 after about 4 months at typo.social
Let's do it! #100, unless the algorithms find me boring? 🤔 😜 and hides me?
#tengwar #tolkien

2025-07-04 12:19:52 UTC

Beside the Tengwar, Tolkien created many other writing systems. There is enough work for an army of Type Designers.
I hope to sparkle some interest with my publications. I cannot create all the scripts Tolkien coined. The more the better!
Below another interesting script that Tolkien called "Cursive Runes".
These are the cursive forms of the Elvish Runes, the Angerthas in the Appendix E of "The Lord of the Rings".
#tolkien #runes
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/794/920/147/919/332/original/699e2d6de9bee593.jpg

2025-07-01 13:14:01 UTC

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@nprofile…ryax You mean Donald Sutherland is not Gollum in the last episode? 🤔

2025-06-29 18:55:55 UTC

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@nprofile…mjt5 Thank you! I look forward to GABRIOLA. 👍 😎
My ultimate goal is to find Fonts to use in my (future) Middle-earth Atlas.
I would like to make general Middle-earth maps in an "old style" (1700-1750) and more modern 1890/1900 style maps close up (The Shire, Gondor, Númenor etc.).

2025-06-29 15:24:48 UTC

I am trying to understand all the refinement of GABRIOLA font by John Hudson.
Someone has a .pdf document explaining all the styles and use of that complex font? Or a link to these explanation? Thanks!
#gabriola

2025-06-20 08:24:13 UTC

Tolkien wrote in one of his letters that beside languages he was interested in plant science.
Tolkien indeed took time to imagine Elvish plant classification. Not a scientific like one by von Linné but an everyday classification based on outside shape.
In Quenya "trees" fall into 3 categories alda, orne or tussa.
The Quenya word TUSSA is written in Tengwar according to the ára-tencele mode.
#tolkien #botany
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/714/728/871/502/715/original/9836d02289c8484d.png

2025-06-17 09:13:06 UTC

I just learned that Windows has still 'problems' showing Fonts on screen, and users could use ClearType and MacType.
How does this impact my Font design on my Mac (OS 14.7.6)?
I am a long time Mac user. I bought my first Macintosh computer in 1986. My first computer was a TRS-80 (1979).
I have never used a PC with Windows at home only at work while working on PCDOS programing with an engineering French company. I mostly worked on Sun-3 with SunOS while programing.

2025-05-30 10:14:11 UTC

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@nprofile…ryax Quite close indeed. Thank you very much.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/596/251/849/603/307/original/e243935c7e48d77d.png

2025-05-29 12:59:34 UTC

Can anyone suggest some fonts that resemble this wonderful (? hand cut) font?: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/4873195 ?
😎
#oldmaps
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/591/237/483/374/461/original/e5f0ec8d14b810a7.png

2025-05-15 11:31:39 UTC

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@nprofile…ryax Thank you! 👍 You are indeed not the first one in the past days to point me to that book.
I downloaded the ‘The Stroke’ by Gerrit Noordzij 2 days ago.
Also, I should draw on paper first and then scan? I have been mostly drawing directly on screen with FontLab8. It seems now to be a beginners mistake.

2025-05-14 10:33:10 UTC

I reworked the glyph for 11 in duodecimal trying to make it looking less like a Tengwa (letter) and more like a 'number' (abstract).
Comments welcome. I am still learning! 🤓
#tolkien #tengwar #elvishtypography #duodecimal
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/505/722/604/349/767/original/be4be89e2b3223a3.png

2025-05-01 13:18:13 UTC

Just read a short paper about .notdef (https://www.thomasphinney.com/2024/12/notdef-emoji-symbol-x-rectangle/)
There is no X in Elvish. 🤔
The Elvish Rune X has a meaning too.
How's .notdef in other Non-european languages/font/systems?
Should I design an Elvish one?

2025-05-01 09:00:46 UTC

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@nprofile…ryax Thank you very much again Nick.
I agree that I better start by proposing a paper to these journals (by the end of this year) and see if it got accepted.

2025-04-30 19:05:04 UTC

Do you think a publisher specializing in Latin fonts and Latin typography might be interested in a book about how I made my Open Type Tengwar Fonts, Tolkien's Tengwar in general, etc.?
And if so, which one might it be?

2025-04-28 18:49:05 UTC

I was expecting some questions about the Tengwar text I posted a few hours ago. 🤓
No one asked but I will tell you anyway. 😜
It is an English (quote) from a poem Tolkien liked a lot: "The Walrus and the Carpenter" by Lewis Carroll.
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/417/065/423/813/328/original/deafde3b0be26fbc.png

2025-04-27 08:52:56 UTC

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@nprofile…ryax thank you very much.
I will redraw/rethink this glyph. 👍

2025-04-26 23:54:32 UTC

The text below written by J.R.R. Tolkien about Elvish Numerals was only published last September (2024).
I just designed this evening (it is almost 2 in the night in France) the Elvish < > glyphs.
A bit "thick maybe"? Feedback is welcome. I'm here to learn. 😎
#tolkien #tengwar
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/406/943/412/698/009/original/d32f60ba787ecdcb.png

2025-04-23 10:37:21 UTC

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@nprofile…6lh3 very very nice hand!

2025-04-07 16:32:26 UTC

Tolkien wrote the Latin language using Tengwar. Tolkien used in fact the Tengwar to write several natural languages beside English.
Below Tolkien's manuscript with my transliteration.
I call this mode the "Latin full mode".
#Tengwar #Latin #Elvishtypography #Elvish
https://typo.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/297/619/923/607/645/original/0829b03bf0888ae2.png