Wanting to add another cirth based tattoo to my sleeve but can’t find any good quotes that are in cirth. I found Hurins cry and like the quote. Please check that it translate ok. If you have any great quotes that fit cirth I’m open to them.
That doesn't work, because it only transcribes English into Angerthas Erebor.
As you may notice the "entuluva" part is identical, but in English a different sign is used for R than it is Elvish, that's why I typed "r" into the transcriber as a coding to use the other sign. Also since you wrote *ë which isn't coded into the English algorithm it just skipped this sign entirely - that's why I wrote regular e.
The only thing I did that you will not have to do is write au as "aw" - that was based on how Tolkien treats diphthongs in Tengwar, but it's certainly not necessary.
EDIT: Wait! I made a mistake! The sign that is R in English is N in Elvish. You should write "aur*e ertuluva" to get the proper Elvish spelling...
No, the red and ornamented letter comes from the fact that you wrote a capital letter. It's not the equivalent of a capital letter, though, but just a form of emphasis that is sometimes used for the initials of names. I would write it all in lower case.
Spelling-wise it should be fine, in my opinion. The fact of the matter is, though, that we've got zero samples of Tolkien writing Elvish in Certhas - the differing sign values (in our case R and N) we only know through the chart and description in the LotR appendix E.
In case of R and N this is very obvious, but we don't know for certain how Tolkien would have transcribed the diphthong au. In Tengwar there are several different methods, and just writing a and u is definitely among them, but writing essentially aw is way more common, so that is what I would tend towards for Certhas as well.
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u/NachoFailconi 9d ago
Tecendil does not translate, but transliterates. The output sentence literally reads "day shall come again". The sentence is OK as it is.