Aragorn
Arwen
Ellrond
Frodo

J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The text written in Tengwar has been taken from Tolkiens Lord of the Rings

The Fellowship of the Ring

The Two Towers

The Return of the King


 The Tengwar


Tengwar Inscription

Tengwar is the most prominent of Tolkien's invented writing systems. (The name can be translated as "letters", which is why I will mostly use it as a plural word.) The best known example is undoubtedly the Ring-inscription from The Lord of the Rings. The Tengwar also appear in the illustration for the Moria gate, and Appendix E of the novel contains a detailed description of the system.

The angular letters on Balin's tomb, however, are Cirth ("runes"), and will not be discussed here.

In their fictional setting, the Tengwar came to be known in a wide geographic area, and were used for writing many Elvish and non-Elvish languages. As is to be expected, each language had a somewhat different orthography, or even several of them. These orthographies, the different ways of applying the letters and signs for representing sounds, are known as modes.

Download Tengwar
Dan Smith's Tenwar Fonts

Translation
Three Rings for the Elven Kings, under the sky.

Seven for the Dwarven Lords in their halls of stone.

Nine for mortal man , doomed to die.

One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne,
in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

One Ring to rule them all.
One Ring to find them.

One Ring to bring them all.

And in the darkness bind them.


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