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coin
June 10th,2003, 10:10 PM
You recently announced a new website " http://www.lordoftheringstore.com " I visited it and noticed that the menus and section headings have been translated into sindarin and written in Tengwar, how cool is that?


Any thoughts?

coin
June 10th,2003, 10:42 PM
what do make of it Wilarin?

coin
June 11th,2003, 06:11 PM
Any one got any idea if it's right?

Wilwarin
June 12th,2003, 12:09 AM
Well, I find them very hard to make out. The dark Tengwar above where it says "Products" says "bach", which literally means "ware, an artical for trade." That makes sense. Where it says "Swords" the Tengwar may say "megil", at least it should because "megil" is _sword_. But the actual letters are M E B L, so go figure. The rest of them are too hard to make out all the way. Where it says "Home" the Tengwar says "var", which isn't exactly right. It should be "mar"_home_.

There was a little pop-up add for Narsil. The Tengwar there said "Narthil". lol

I have found that most of the time any Tengwar on LotR sites—unless the site is about Elvish—is most likely incorrect. Can anyone else make out the words better than I can?

What have you come up with, coin? Do you know what they say?

coin
June 12th,2003, 07:11 AM
The writing next to the word "home" in the heading image. i.e. next to leglas' head seems to read "megil banga(m)" i think. ..."we trade swords" ?

not sure

I think narsil is correct - late in Beleriand Sindarin the 'th' > 'S'. Narsil was supposed to be this type - earlier it would have been Narthil - I think

There might be tethar over the 'L' in swords - not sure. Anyone else make out a vowel?

Wilwarin
June 12th,2003, 11:09 PM
Wow, you can sure see it a lot better than I can! Your right about Narsil though. I had fogotten about that.

coin
June 13th,2003, 12:05 AM
If you click on the "figurines" link then the heading comes up clearer on the page that it opens - think it means little people, not sure though

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