Does anyone know of where I can get a font that looks somewhat like Tolkien’s elvish. (I don’t know whether it’s Quenya or Sindarin, or what… the cursive writing on the ring.) I’ve found several sites that have actual elven fonts, but I’m looking for something that looks elven but is actually readable english.
theres one called ‘tengwar-gandalf’. try a google or the site you mention above, or www.1001fonts.com.
its based on the alphabets in the appendixes at the back of better editions LOTR
I guess I wasn’t clear. I’m not looking for a font to write in tengwar. I’m looking for a font to write in english, that looks like tengwar. Check out that link I posted before. Look closely, those aren’t hebrew letters. They’re english letters that look hebrew. tengwar-gandalf appears to be one of many truly tengwar fonts.
Cougarfang, your site doesn’t work for me, it’s exceeded it’s bandwidth. I’ll try again later, and see if they have what I want.
i used tengwar-gandalf for the promotional stuff i did at tower piccadilly when fellowship came out. it looks like a cross between a sort of gaelic font and the one they use on the LOTR posters. im not sure how many variations there are, but that was definately in english.not too many london rekkid buyers speak elvish.
i wish i still had the suitcase ATM for it, i could have e-mailed it.
Christopher Tolkien lettered the maps, and J.R.R. wrote, in a style based loosely on a combination of old Celtic uncial with a tinge of chancery cursive. So looking for variations on those will approximate an “elvish” script. I found Benedict Uncial, which approaches the sort of thing they did. Two others I have but don’t know the source for are Clo Gaelach and Cry Uncial, which also have a pseudo-Celtic “Tolkienish” feel to them; check out online font libraries and search for those names.
Is anyone else having trouble accessing the font in bordelond’s link? When I click on the link for True Type, I’ve consistently gotten a message saying that the page was not available, both yesterday and today.
You know, my co-worker and I were just taking about this, because he wants a wedding band like that for him and his girlfriend. Of course, he wants it to say forever, or something in the actual elvish script.