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Writing with Elvish Fonts
dj_whitebread writes "Have you ever wanted to write in the Elvish script? Now's your chance to have your Elvish text look just like Tolkien's. This page gives you all the instructions. The typographer in me has to respect these guy's efforts!"
Man, just the thing to make the old resume stand out in the crowd.
Not Elvis.... got me confused there for a moment.
Now I know what to put all over my rice burner to make it faster!!!
Where can I get an Elvish keyboard?
QWERTY,
DVORAK,
TENGWAR?
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus."
This stuff looks like it's in a foreign language or something.
The only lexicon I need to know is:
hamburgers chips sleeping pills
Being able to write love poems using the Elvish script will really give me the edge in attracting a female companion!
:)
Thanks slashdot
Saying your OS is the best because more people use it is like saying MacDonalds make the best food
/. readers now know that michael has a typographer inside him! Get it out, michael!
>> I think this was the very same site I used as a reference when desinging engravings to my and my ex-girlfriends rings.
Well, I guess you answered the question of why she is your EX-girlfriend...
Is all well and good, but Don't Come Crying To Me When You Need Someone Who Speaks Elvish.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
The ultimate geek matchup: Tengwar vs. Aurebesh!
Which font will earn the right to go up against Klingon for the hearts (and webpages) of geeks worldwide?
On a personal note, I'll always be an Aurebesh man myself.
MMORPG fan-boy? Prove your worth
On June 16, 2001 Elenhil Laiquendo (Boris Shapiro) and Elgaladna Findilauriel (Olga Kukhtenkova) got married in a catholic church in Russia. Boris is an amateur linguist and a beginner lambengolmo. He is fond of Tolkien and his languages and he specializes (to a certain extent) in Quenya and in Middle-earth calendars; he has complex ideas about Tolkien's world and Christianity and the Elder Days of our oikoumene; his beloved, Olga is an artist, a dramatic actress, a theatre costumier, she loves drawing fairies and elves and illustrating Tolkien, she also specializes in the history of arts and culture and loves mythology and collects cosmogonical mythos. They both are elves: his name is Elenhil Laiquendo and her one is Elgaladna Findilauriel.
so elves do get laid,
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I find certain c++ code more intelligible when I apply an Elvish filter. Forth does better in dwarvish. I save the black speech for Cobol.
Two words:
Lah-hoo. Zah-hers.
I got more rhymes than Jamaica got Mangoes.
And Java, of course, is the common tongue.
(Goddamn, I hate Java and Java evangelism, but I couldn't resist). +5 funny to the parent as well.
Don't.
Believe me, your ego will thank me later.
In case anyone is interested, this is a good example of an Elvis font.
Have you ever wanted to write in the Elvish script?
No.
in girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
My blessed magic marker keeps drying out when I try to write those complex spellbooks that I can never seem to read. Not to mention all those monsters that keep ignoring my hastily engraved Elbereth; here I've been using the wrong font all along. Stupid tourist!
The day that my XT replaced
my D&D dice holding case
social skills I neglected
elvish lore I dissected
and a celibate life I embraced.
-- www.bbspot.com
Finally I can start work on my Elvish to Klingon dictionary!
Elvish Meetups (Score:-5, Dorky)
Err, isn't that a bit weird? An Elf who's religion specifically identifies Man as created in the image of the one true God?
I was thin and small for my age, with large eyes and ears and a lanky body
Don't fall for their lies! Those aren't elves, they're those little grey big eyed aliens!
Everything will be taken away from you.
"No! No, freakin' kids. I do not need this, I've got a masters degree in folklore mythology."
Ross Perot is an alien?
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I believe you'll find them in the book titled "1024 Things Geeks Do That Keep Them From Getting Laid".
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
that read 'Writing with Elvis fonts?' This font starts out small, but will grow during use :)
But I'd really be impressed if someone did scanner software to read Elvish!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Ring owns her now :)
/ss
Well, this blows the myth of unearthly elven beauty right out of the water.
On the other hand, I'm sure there are plenty of women who would love to meet a cunning linguist.
Cynicism is the natural defence of the romantic.
Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes...
"You know when I was in Memphis I came this close to seeing Elvis, but my shovel broke."
Stop by my site where I write about ERP systems & more
From the article:
"The Tengwar, also called Feanorian letters after their inventor, were used in Aman and Middle-earth for writing many different languages."
I wish there would be at least a token acknowledgement that all of this is fiction...not because people don't know, but because it is kind of creepy.
It does look rather evil that way, doesn't it?
H4H4 Y0U D0N7 UND3R574ND H0W 70 7YP3 1N 7RU3 L337! 3V1L MY 455!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I thought I was a nerd. Nope, right now I feel like the coolest person on the planet. I'm f*cking Fonzie! I'm gonna go to the bar tonight and pick up chicks!
I'm confused... are we talking a wingding type font inspired by the King of Rock-n-Roll?
Ho man, look at that font. That thing is HUGE!
You're right tiny Elvish.The typographer in me has to respect these guy's efforts!
And the sane part of me says "what a fucking loser".
One ring engraved by dork,
One ring that's plated,
One ring that doesn't work
And ensures the giver's hated...
All the real men can write tengwar by hand...
Just between Elves, I feel confident that I can tell you, fairest one, the following:
O menel aglar elenath!
So, did you like the font? Cool, huh? Found it on Slashdot, heh heh. What's Slashdot? Oh, you have so much to learn, my queen, so much. But there will be years for that (particularly after I level up my Everquest wizard a bit more, which will leave mornings and evenings open).
When I heard that you wished you had more chances to speak Elvish in LOTR:TFOTR and LOTR:TTT and LOTR:TROTK, I knew that our love should no longer have to wait. For now we can speak and key Elvish to our hearts' content in our own private Lothlorien, or by IM or wirelessly!
In fact, I've made arrangements, and mom says it's OK if we crash in the basement while we get on our feet. I realize that leaving the international limelight to marry an unemployed computer programmer is kind of unusual, but look on the bright side of "
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