r/Tengwar

6K archived posts · Apr 2013 – Sep 2026

Tengwar

r/Tengwar

A subreddit for anything related to J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional writing systems Tengwar, Cirth and Sarati.

Created Apr 8, 2013

14KMembers (last snapshot)

6KArchived posts

Feel free to post anything related to Tolkien's scripts: Transcription requests/verifications, questions, discussions, etc.

Resources for learning Tengwar:

Amanye Tenceli
Chris McKay's Textbook

If you want a translation to one of Tolkien's Elvish languages try these subreddits:

r/Quenya
r/sindarin

Make sure you have a working Tengwar font installed if you see a strange flair, such as "1x{$y6E" or Unicode placeholders.
See here for a list of suitable ones.

Stay away from these sites:

The worst transcriber that exists
English to Elvish Engraving Translator
~~Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes~~

Other Tolkien related subreddits:

r/tolkienfans
r/lotr
r/TheHobbit
r/lordoftherings
r/TheSilmarillion
r/tolkienbooks
r/TolkienArt

Other subreddits about fictional scripts:

r/ElianScript

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