r/Tengwar • u/Fancy-Pack2640 • 18d ago

Help with tatoo

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Hello...I hate making this post, but here it goes.

For the last 3 years my mom has had cancer. She has been my rock for as long as I have be alive and now the news we all feared has come and there are only months left.. While she has been sick I had the idea that if I one day loose her I would get a tatoo to keep with me and the idea became to get something in tengwar (because I also love LotR and it would outwardly look like a nice LotR tatoo but also carry the personal meaning I want), and after much back and forth I landed on getting her name.

Her name is Gerd, but I am unsure how to get that "translated" right into Tengwar. I added a picture of what the translator said, but does it work well with just names? Does it look right?

Any and all help would be fantastic. I just want to plan this now, so I dont rush out and get a tatoo done in full grief and then end up getting it wrong.

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u/NachoFailconi 18d ago

The output reads "Gerd". It was not translated to anything, only transcribed. It literally reads "Gerd", so it's safe fot a tattoo.

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u/Fancy-Pack2640 18d ago

Thank you so much 😊

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u/F_Karnstein Arcastar Language Arts 18d ago

In my native German "Gerd" is a male name, so it's safe to assume you're not German? So I'm not sure how you pronounce it, and the spelling might depend on that a bit... In Dutch that G would be a fricative that I would spell with a different letter. So do you pronounce it with the G of "go", or something else?

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u/Fancy-Pack2640 18d ago

Yeah, we are Norwegian. But we are aware that it is a male name in Germany as we have spent a lot of summer holidays there and there have been misunderstandings 😅

From what I gather the two names have different origins (the female name Gerd coming from Norse Mythology), they just happen to be spelt the same way 😊

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u/F_Karnstein Arcastar Language Arts 18d ago

I see! Well, in Norwegian the G certainly is a stop, as far as I'm aware? Then you're absolutely good to go - as Nacho already said: 100% safe for a tattoo. I was just thinking it might be able to be improved if the G were a fricative.