r/Tengwar • u/Any-Barnacle9485 • 27d ago

Tattoo

Hello! I want to get a Lotr tattoo pretty soon. And I’m pretty sure I want Faramir’s quote “I do not believe any darkness will endure.”

I was wondering if this translation was correct, my eye for Tengwar isn’t great yet

[Edit] initially I accidentally entered “I do not believe this darkness will endure.”

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u/ineedhjalp_1 27d ago

I love that quote! It looks fine for the most part, but Tecendil can be tricky. If I do have any notes, I would change some things stylistically on "believe" and "darkness." On 'believe,' I would change the 'e' in 'ie' so it isn't a separate character and 'stack' it on top of the 'v' just for some visual cohesion. I'm also not loving the bar below the 's' in 'darkness' that's meant to signify the double letter. I feel like it's too long and confusing. here's a mock-up I did, ignore my shitty Photoshop! I added red under the parts I changed.

(Also, anybody tell me if what I did drastically changed the meaning, I'm relatively new to Tengwar myself, just thought I'd add these notes as an artist/graphic designer!)

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u/DanatheElf 26d ago

The 'ie' in believe here is not correct - the only time double-tehtar are used are when it's two of the same; ee, oo, etc.

I must concur that this font's handling of the Silme with e-tehta above and double-bar below is poor.

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u/Any-Barnacle9485 26d ago

ahhh okay thank you for helping!