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e_kloczkoTolkien's manuscript. This is from another area of Tolkien's mind: calendars. He was pretty obsessed with making calendars for his Middle-earth. He wrote a big appendix to "The Lord of the Rings" about it, and wrote a great deal about the calendars before settling on the text as printed in Appendix D of "The Lord of the Rings".I also feel like making a Font of Tolkien's own pen writing. What do you think?<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/calendars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calendars</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calligraphy</a>

e_kloczkoTolkien's tengwar script is used with many different (pretty logical) 'rules' called 'modes' or 'usages'. In one such mode the vowels are written as diacritics over the Elvish letter. (see image below). I settled on _each mode = 1 OpenType Font_; rules are different in each modes.In one mode Elvish diphthongs are written with special compendium. In order to override the liga rules I put the diphthongs in rlig but XQ 2022 does not recognize this!? 😞 While WORD and InDesign are oki. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a>

e_kloczkoThe One Ring inscription (Part 2)Image 1 shows the second One Ring inscription Tolkien sent to the printer. But he was still unhappy with it. So he asked to send another one. Image 2 shows the well know inscription as printed in books. The original art sent by Tolkien to the printer is lost. The inadvertently changed tengwa is circled in blue. Tolkien became later aware of his mistake (before publication) but accepted it. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/sauron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sauron</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/onering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onering</a>

e_kloczkoThe One Ring inscription (Part 1)The inscription on the One Ring is perhaps the best-known piece of Tengwar art (along with the Doors of Moria) that Tolkien conceived, but did you know that he made a mistake in trying to find a better style of calligraphy for it after sending it to the printer and being urged by everyone to finish the job?_look for part 2_<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/onering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onering</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/sauron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sauron</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/blackspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blackspeech</a>

(K)Nick(y) (K)nitsONLY ONE MORE PAGE TO GO! I don't normally post in progress pics to my grid but getting to the last page feels momentous. 💙 Pattern by Lyle Stafford on Ravelry. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lotr?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lotr</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/theonering?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theonering</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lordoftherings?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lordoftherings</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tolkien?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tolkienfan?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkienfan</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tolkienart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkienart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/knitting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knitting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/doubleknitting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#doubleknitting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/knittedscarf?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#knittedscarf</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fibrearts?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fibrearts</a>

e_kloczko« I am, however, primarily a philologist and to some extent a calligrapher (though this letter may make that difficult to believe). »Wrote Tolkien in 1956 in a letter (letter n° 187). Image = Tolkien's manuscript and calligraphy<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/calligraphy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calligraphy</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/calligrapher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#calligrapher</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a>

e_kloczkoI have a problem. Is it possible to have 2 glyphs for 1 ligature in OpenType?Thanks for your help. 👍 😅 <a href="https://typo.social/tags/opentype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opentype</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a>

1 tripod in 3 trenchcoats"I asked Polygon’s resident sports gamer, Samit Sarkar, to tell me some things about the Masters Tournament, and it seems to have a number of parallels to The Lord of the Rings, what with an all-male group of heroes battling to win a precious, worn object that has known many bearers over its long history. Honestly, that all sounds very tiring — maybe someone should just cast it into a fire."<a href="https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/556864/masters-tournament-golf-hobbits-tolkien" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.polygon.com/lord-of-the-rings/556864/masters-tournament-golf-hobbits-tolkien</a><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/golf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#golf</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/hobbits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hobbits</a>

Gurre VildskäggGamla översättningen av Bilbo översätter goblins till vättar. Ok rimligt, men lite svårläst.<a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a>

kidulagWow I didn’t knew <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ToveJansson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToveJansson</a> did illustrate <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a>’s The Hobbit 😳🖤

e_kloczkoI was very surprised to meet young Feench typographers who know Tolkien and his Tengwar, but do not understand why the Tengwar need to have their own modern design (stabilization) and not simply make copies of the few Tolkien's calligraphies they know. Tolkien experimented extensively with Elvish calligraphy. My goal is to provide the public with several Tengwar fonts and pave the way for other typographers and designers. Image = Tolkien's manuscript.<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/elvishtypography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elvishtypography</a>

Inkdustrielle<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThrowbackThursday</a> with this 2022 map of one of my oldest passions: my mother used to read Bilbo to us to put us to sleep, I read all Tolkien works and try to learn Sindarin during my teens, Jackson's trilogy is my favorite movie since I saw FOTR at the theater at 9 y.o, I try to read LOTR & Silmarillion regularly...It took an eternity to tool and another eternity to lace. Hoping to do the Beleriand one one day ! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lotr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lotr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geek</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leathercraft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leathercraft</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leatherart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#leatherart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastoart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mastoart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fantasyart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fantasyart</a>

e_kloczko"A Elbereth Gilthoniel" written by Tolkien in "The Road Goes Ever On" and in Tengwar Font.The capital E is not my invention but a variant "e" used sometimes by Elves (according to Tolkien). I find it convenient to differentiate Capital Tengwar when it is a "historically" correct form in Middle-earth.The dots over the i (in this mode) are simply a variant. It helps reading I believe.<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/sindarin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sindarin</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/elvishtypography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elvishtypography</a>

e_kloczkoThe name Imladris written by Tolkien in Tengwar in the "mode of Beleriand" (as appropriate since it is a Sindarin word). This is printed in the book "The Road Goes Ever On".And in Tengwar Font. The capital I (i) in Tengwar has never been spotted by the previous Tengwar Font designer. I think it has an arm to differentiate it from another Tengwar looking very much like it, called "gasdil", and noting a lost g in Sindarin: i ’Olodh, the Noldo. And gasdil is just a stem.<a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a>

Tyson, Chicken Rancher 🐓As a <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/LOTR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LOTR</a> fan, it's incredibly annoying that Peter Thiel's terrible techno-police-state companies are named after Westernese artifacts and other names borrowed from Tolkien's lore. There's Palantir, which makes population surveillance tech, and Andruil, which is building the ED-209 "peace-keeping machine" from Robocop. Then there are Valar Ventures and Mithril Capital. Dude, Tolkien was against everything you stand for! I feel like <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> did when the Nazis started appropriating Germanic mythology and the Ring Cycle. <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/palantir-provides-the-engine-for-donald-trumps-deportation-machine/</a>

Ralf H. SchneiderEinen Tag beginnt man am besten in guter Gesellschaft<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gandalf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gandalf</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lotr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lotr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hdr</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/jrrtolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jrrtolkien</a>

Auld Ma TwəggI've learned that if I say, "Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?" my partner is compelled to make me a coffee.<a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://sauropods.win/tags/Quenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quenya</a>

e_kloczkoThe Tengwar are primarily a system of signs. The manner in which they were used and applied varied greatly at different times (within Middle-earth) and according to the purposes for which they were used. For each language to which this script was applied, the values of the signs and diacritical marks were freely altered and adapted, making the correct use of this writing system extremely complex. Tolkien often made mistakes while writing in Tengwar. <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tengwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tengwar</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tolkien</a> <a href="https://typo.social/tags/elvishtypography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#elvishtypography</a>

deerbardLong long time ago I paused at this project but I never forgot. It will, at one point, be <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/12SymbolicCharacters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#12SymbolicCharacters</a> not less.<a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/WIP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WIP</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#art</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/TolkienIllustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TolkienIllustration</a>

Martin RundkvistThere's a day in 1930 when <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> decides after 13 years of writing, "Fuck it, I'm just gonna sink Beleriand under the sea! Nogrod and Belegost can become coastal cities!"This is however not the point when he decides to draw a map of what's east of the Ered Luin and start writing about that area instead.* 1930. Let Beleriand sink.* 1930-32. Write The Hobbit, set in "Wilderland" in some other world.* Later. Decide that actually, Wilderland is just east of the Silmarillion map.<a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

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