r/Tengwar•
oteyot

What if im southern

Ok so basically these past few days i've taken up learning tengwar and become roughly familiar with how modes and letters work. I'm american and from the south and've been wondering if i can get away with using Romen most of the time as i'm writing in my own voice or at least my own accent. i figured if there was some Dixie-English-Mode of tengwar it could be excused and it would still be intelligible.

As i've been learning i've seen that when to use Romen or Ore in english modes is disputed between: write em like tolkien spoke, write em if there rhotic or non-rhotic, or write romen if the next word starts with a vowel with most people settling on rhotic-ness. which makes sense as it sort of "frees" the writer from the grasp of great britain and lets it function much more broadly for all sorts of writing.

With how many modes and options for orthographic or full modes, this isnt too wild right? I suppose a downside would be that someone could come along, look at my writing and say "a yankee lie here" or something.

Posted Dec 29, 2025, 6:29 PM UTC

714
Loading comments…