Online Guide to for Learning Elvish

By Teresa 'Chrissy' Conner, published Mar 03, 2008
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Elvish is probably the most widely spoken and popular invented language, beating perhaps even Klingon (from Star Trek), though I will probably get some comments begging to differ. Created by author and linguist J.R.R. Tolkien for his now classic Middle-Earth series, Elvish (mainly Quenya and Sindarin) have taken the world by storm. If you are like me, and are intrigued with the sheer brilliance and depth of these languages, I've put together a list of all the websites I find to be the most helpful in learning (or at least attempting to learn) Elvish and its variants. List is in no particular order.

Ardalambion
http://www.uib.no/People/hnohf/ - The definitive site on all things relating to Tolkien's Languages. Includes a comprehensive overview of Sindarin and Quenya, as well as most of what is known about the rest of Tolkien's languages, including the darker tongues of Mordor. Also has a downloadable Quenya course for self-paced learning.

Fellowship of the Word Smiths
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/ - This site contains compositions and artwork in Sindarin and Quenya, as well as detailed translations and wordlists from Peter Jackson's film trilogy and Howard Shore's accompanying soundtracks. And has Sindarin Grammar help.

Tengwar Primer
http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html - associated with the Mellonath Daeron, Tengwar Primer is a site that includes .pdf files on writing both Quenya and Sindarin, as well as elven numerics.

Ostadan's Lore and Letters
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/ostadan/ - This site offers articles on different parts of the Tolkien languages, and some on the lettering systems of Cirth and Tengwar.

Amanye Tenceli
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/ - this site is dedicated to the different variations on and use of the Tengwar and Sarati scripts, mainly those of the Aman continent. Amanye Tenceli includes some font downloads as well.

Did You Know?
Elvish is probably the most widely spoken and popular invented language, beating perhaps even Klingon.
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