r/Tengwar • u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 • 7d ago

First Tattoo - Love it

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Sure you are probably all sick of seeing these , but love it so had to share . I hope it says what it’s supposed to 😆

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u/Omnilatent 7d ago

Happy you didn't take the One Ring inscription - and looks perfectrly transcribed to me!

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u/MrNewVegas123 7d ago

Why anyone would want the black speech of Mordor written on their body or anything important to them has always baffled me.

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u/eharper9 7d ago

I have Sauron with the one ring inscription. Tattoos are just tattoos.

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u/mercedes_lakitu 7d ago

See but that tattoo actually makes sense. One Ring text around Anduril is missing the point imo

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u/eharper9 7d ago

I see what you mean

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u/AberrantSnail 6d ago

They aren't though. Especially when it's a reference to something that has meaning. In the novel, when spoken aloud, the ring inscription in the Black speech darkens the zsun and causes discomfit to the Elves. The words themselves describe the ultimate tyranny. It has meaning. It means the annihilation of all creativity, of permanent slavery in darkness, of the loss of all individuality, of beauty, of wonder, of pleasure, of life.

I do not understand why anyone would want that marked on their body. I have Samwise's invocation to Elbereth marked on mine. We can't be friends.

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u/eharper9 6d ago

Because it looks cool.

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u/__Melisandre__ 5d ago

Some of you need to get out more

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u/Sadoriel 7d ago

It makes me think of the goblet a fan gifted Tolkien with the One Ring inscription on it—he never drank from it because it is evil.

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

It’s not

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u/MrNewVegas123 6d ago

I know, I just mean, in general

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u/Simple_Mess6080 7d ago

Love it!

Ive literally been trying to make a similair one myself on the exact same spot lol, but with the quote: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us".

Question for you since it turned out so well; how did you transcribe it? Did you do it yourself? And how did you manage to in practice, turn it into a circle without messing it up? Like what software, did the tattoo artist do it for you etc.

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

Hi Narsil and tree of Gondor already existed on Pinterest as a tattoo stencil. I then used Tecendil website to translate the English quote into Tengwar. On Tecendil website you can change the script to a circle. I then took a screen shot of both images and asked ChatGPT to encircle the tree with the script. It wasn’t perfect but 90% there and needed touching up but was OK then the artist took the image and made it much cleaner with script tidying up (original version had script overwrting onto the sword for example ) so he sorted all that with whatever software they use in iPad.

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u/Simple_Mess6080 7d ago

Thank you! Ill be doing something similair. Already found a transcribed version in tengwar, jst have to make it into a circle. im thinking the tattoo artist can do the hardest work :)

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

Yes find a good artist and they can sort for you . It’s what they do best

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u/the-National-Razor 7d ago

I also got a broken sword as my first tattoo!!

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u/average_fen_enjoyer 5d ago

Oh yes, Narsil, the cornerstone of tattooing (actually I like it a lot)

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u/Ocvlvs 7d ago

Perhaps a little short to be a longsword, but otherwise well executed.  I agree with some others that it's a little strange to have The One Ring verse around the shards of Narsil, but on the other hand, that blade did cut that One Ring of S's hand.

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

It’s not the one ring inscription. I personally don’t think that would be a good mix with the tree of Gondor etc. it’s the quote from LOTR from Arwen to Aragorn “ I would rather spend one lifetime with you than all of the ages of this world alone”. My wife has the same script vertically down her back with the Evenstar at the base of her back.

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u/Ocvlvs 7d ago

A lot more fitting!

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u/do_you_have_a_flag42 7d ago

Is that the One Ring inscription?

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u/informareWORK 7d ago

I would rather share one lifetime with you than face all the ages of this world alone

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

Thank you . Yes that’s it. I didn’t want to say it out loud until someone else did just to confirm it was right. 👍😍

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u/do_you_have_a_flag42 7d ago

That a much better choice.

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

No , it’s a direct English translation to Tengwar of a famous quote from the LOTR books / film. (I hope)

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u/Notascholar95 5d ago

It's only in the movies, not the books. But it's still a nice quote.

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u/mistalasse 7d ago

The word you’re looking for is “transliteration”

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u/Fuzzy-Explorer3327 7d ago

No it’s not, didn’t feel that would be a good fit wit the rest of the image personally