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Tamas Ferencz May 05, 2016 (16:00)

It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this acquisition on http://douglasstewart.com.au/news/)
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It's in English, not any ME language, but it's still nice: Tolkien's greeting inscription in Tengwar from a letter to G.H. Cowling (details of this acquisition on http://douglasstewart.com.au/news/)

j. mach Wust May 05, 2016 (16:45)

This sample has been known previously (see http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/mdtci.html#DTS84 ). The new picture has a better quality, though.

Tamas Ferencz May 05, 2016 (16:54)

+j. mach Wust
sure - I did not intend to share it as anything new, just as an interesting bit.

Александр Запрягаев May 05, 2016 (18:07)

"With the very best wishes [?!] I wish that you need not go back across so wide a sea?"

Tamas Ferencz May 05, 2016 (20:27)

+Александр Запрягаев I read it as "with the very best wishes of JRR Tolkien..."

Jan Sorondil Slaný May 05, 2016 (20:58)

I'm surprised to see tehtar can be placed over an s-hook.

Александр Запрягаев May 05, 2016 (22:19)

+Jan Sorondil Slaný If the preceding vowel is marked, why not.

Jan Sorondil Slaný May 05, 2016 (22:33)

I always treated s-hooks as being similar in function to signs like the tilde for preceding nasal, that is as a mark modifying the consonant tengwa itself, with which it forms an atomic unit. I thus considered s-hooks applicable only for cases, where the s is adjacent to the preceding consonant, and not a separate sign, which can also receive tehtar.
Apparently, I was wrong. I guess I should consider s-hooks as being simply an alternative glyph for the tengwa silmë.

j. mach Wust May 06, 2016 (06:47)

Other instances of sa-rince carrying a tehta occur in DTS 10 and in DTS 50. Encoding-wise, we have distinguished between a spacing sa-rince (that can carry tehtar) and a combining sa-rince. On a tengwa like quesse, the combining sa-rince attaches below the lúva, while the spacing sa-rince attaches on the right side of the telco.