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Writing with Elvish Fonts

Posted by michael on from the spanish-is-easier-and-more-useful dept.

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!"

17 of 409 comments (clear)

  1. Resumes by deanj · · Score: 5, Funny

    Man, just the thing to make the old resume stand out in the crowd.

  2. Hell Yeah! by mschoolbus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I know what to put all over my rice burner to make it faster!!!

  3. Yes, but by Matey-O · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where can I get an Elvish keyboard?

    QWERTY,
    DVORAK,
    TENGWAR?

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    1. Re:Yes, but by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 4, Funny
      You seek the One true keyboard. It has but a single key, in the Elven Tongue "Any"

      One Key to Rule them all, One key to find them, One Key to bring them all and in the gui bind them.

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      --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
  4. Re:Ohhhhh Elvish by bluethundr · · Score: 4, Funny

    ::sound of slashdot crickets::

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  5. woohoo by thanjee · · Score: 5, Funny

    Being able to write love poems using the Elvish script will really give me the edge in attracting a female companion!

    Thanks slashdot :)

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    1. Re:woohoo by MacGod · · Score: 4, Funny
      Well, only if your hitting on Elvish women!

      Otherwise you might as well just wear an "I'm a big geek" T-shirt. Like, say, this one.

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      "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one " -Albert Einstein
  6. Re:Seen this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> 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...

  7. Writing with is... by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is all well and good, but Don't Come Crying To Me When You Need Someone Who Speaks Elvish.

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  8. The battle of the Fonts... by groove10 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    MMORPG fan-boy? Prove your worth
  9. dear god please let this not be real by Letter · · Score: 5, Funny
    dear god please let this not be real,

    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,
    letter

  10. Re:very cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  11. Answer questions. by euxneks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Have you ever wanted to write in the Elvish script?

    No.

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  12. Will this help my Nethack ascension? by dmeranda · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  13. Re:Elvish Meetups by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally I can start work on my Elvish to Klingon dictionary!

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  15. Re:Elvish Meetups by blancolioni · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, this blows the myth of unearthly elven beauty right out of the water.