View Single Post
Old 12-23-2008, 03:06 PM   #4
Ibrīnišilpathānezel
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
 
Ibrīnišilpathānezel's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Back on the Helcaraxe
Posts: 733
Ibrīnišilpathānezel is a guest at the Prancing Pony.Ibrīnišilpathānezel is a guest at the Prancing Pony.
The two notable writings using the Tengwar letters that I can recall are the inscription on the Ring (in Black Speech) and "Namarie" which Tolkien (I believe) penned for his commentaries upon the text in the Donald Swann "The Road Goes Ever On" cycle (in Sindarin, I also believe). Both show distinct gaps between words. The Swann book is literally buried in my office at the moment, so I can't go look it up, but if I'm remembering right, a version of it Tolkien penned did not use the tehtar (vowel marks), but instead used other actual letters for the vowels. Either way, there are definitely spaces between the words. I'm pretty sure. Well...
__________________
Call me Ibrin (or Ibri) :)
Originality is the one thing that unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stewart Mill
Ibrīnišilpathānezel is offline   Reply With Quote