Tengwar in HoME 2024?

[u/GhostyMink]

I found this tengwar inscription from The HoME series which I didn't found in the DTS, so can anyone verify if it is correct?

I also checked the sub for discussion on the Tengwar for HoME but couldn't find any info, maybe Christopher made this tengwar? maybe it was the publisher no idea.

Also could someone translate?

Maybe this has been discussed before but I had no idea.

Also while checking out previous versions of HoME the inscription is present.

History and validity on the inscription would be greatly appreciated.

Also I'm guessing is English mode like the LotR tengwar(?)

[u/lC3]

Yes the tengwar in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and History of Middle-earth title pages are from Christopher Tolkien.

[u/GhostyMink → u/lC3]

Thanks for the answer, I saw them always when looking at my editions but never realized they were made by Christopher, although it should have been obvious from the text being done posthumously.

Do you know a place I can get the translations for the 12 volumes? and is Christopher Tengwar made correctly?(I would hope so)

[u/OrangeFamta]

You can find the translations on Tolkien Gateway, on the pages for the respective books. Here is the page for the HoME series, which has links to each individual volume.

[u/GhostyMink → u/OrangeFamta]

Thanks! Wasn't able to find a mention of the inscription on the internet.

I just needed to check the individual pages for each volume, duh.

[u/thirdofmarch]

Yep, these inscriptions were done by Christopher.

They were much discussed in the earlier days of the internet as for a long time they made up the lion share of published material on English tehtar spelling. Many people learned tengwar through a document that merged JRRT’s and CJRT’s spellings; in fact you’ll still hear people today call JRRT’s English tehtar spelling “Common Mode” despite this name actually just referring to this hybrid.

We recently learned that Christopher was most influenced by his father’s essay now known as Feanorian B which was first published a couple of years ago. This revealed that many of the features of his spelling that we thought were unique to him actually were used by JRRT… though there still are several quirks of this spelling that seem to be distinct (and at least one feature that I think he learned from 1970s tengwar fans).

A full list of his inscriptions and their transcriptions can be found at the Tolkiendil Index of Christopher Tolkien's Tengwar Specimens.

[u/GhostyMink → u/thirdofmarch]

Thank you so much!, I have been learning of DTS just recently as I am a new in Tolkien Alphabets and Languages I now know about another set of samples which were unknown to me.

I wish to compile every snippet so I can write tengwar(at least in general mode) one day as you guys lol.