Tengwar
Also known as Tengwar alphabet, Teng
The Tengwar () script is an artificial script, one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Within the context of Tolkien's fictional world, the Tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elvish languages Quenya and Telerin. Later a great number of Tolkien's constructed languages were written using the Tengwar, including Sindarin. Tolkien used Tengwar to write English: most of Tolkien's Tengwar samples are actually in English.
Key facts
- Writing system.name
- Tengwar
- Writing system.sample
- Tengwar.svg
- Writing system.caption
- The word "Tengwar" written using the Tengwar script in the Quenya mode
- Writing system.imagesize
- 180px
- Writing system.type
- Alternative
- Writing system.typedesc
- abugida or alphabet according to the "mode"
- Writing system.time
- 1930s–present
- Writing system.fam1
- Sarati
- Writing system.creator
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Writing system.languages
- a number of Tolkien's constructed languages, Quenya and Sindarin, English
- Writing system.iso15924
- Teng
- Unicode block.rangestart
Article
22 sectionsContents
- External history
- Precursors
- Tengwar
- Internal history and terminology
- Description
- Letters
- Regularly formed
- Irregularly formed
- {{lang|qya|Tehtar}} diacritics
- Modes
- Ómatehtar
- Full writing
- Modes for other languages
- Encoding schemes
- Legacy encoding
- Unicode
- ConScript Unicode Registry
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
The Tengwar () script is an artificial script, one of several scripts created by J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of The Lord of the Rings. Within the context of Tolkien's fictional world, the Tengwar were invented by the Elf Fëanor, and used first to write the Elvish languages Quenya and Telerin. Later a great number of Tolkien's constructed languages were written using the Tengwar, including Sindarin. Tolkien used Tengwar to write English: most of Tolkien's Tengwar samples are actually in English.
== External history ==