Hi.
I was wondering, if anyone knows the translation for the
elvish writing on the title page of Ruth S. Noel's
"The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth" book.
Though I know a bit of elvish (meaning how to write with the letters),
enough to write understandable sentances, enough to read what
is on the Moria door, enough to read what is on the ring-I for some
reason cannot decipher what is on this title page.
If anyone has seen this writing who can help me, I would appreciate it.
(I would also appreciate a detailed description of the writing translation
if you can give me one, so that I can understand why it says
what it does, and how.)
If not, and you need to see a picture, I will post it later.
I cannot post it quite at the moment.
Thank you very much.
, since I don't have the book. And I don't think I've seen the inscription or a translation of it anywhere else on the web. But if you post a picture I could try and help.
). At the time it was a rather good resource but that is back when all we had was "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion" and I haft to give Ms. Noel credit for doing so well with so little to work with. Sense 1980 the publications of the Histories of Middle Earth and Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien have added new incites in both text and index. In addition 48 issues of Vinyar Tengwar and 16 issues of Parma Eldalamberon (found at