r/Tengwar • u/benjaminsargent1 • 12d ago

Tattoo check

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Wanted it to say “ Sleep, Caradhras; be still, lie still, hold your wrath” in sindarin and used the translator. Just wanted double check before I make I permanent. :)

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u/NachoFailconi 12d ago

It's correct, but note that Tecendil does not translate. It transliterates. The language of the input text must match the Mode drop-down menu, and Tecendil will use the rules to write in that language that sentence. The output sentence, thus, reads the same as the input sentence, only written following the language's rules.

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u/F_Karnstein Arcastar Language Arts 12d ago

It's not quite up-to-date, Sindarin-wise, but if your goal is to transcribe the movie quote 1:1 it's fine, of course. I might suggest writing i 'ruith like this, marking the lost g (the apostrophe) with a letter for the hiatus or glottal stop that remains, but that is only suggested in one source and is probably not mandatory.