A few things I saw in your spreadsheet

[Eryniel]

Hi,

after looking at your spreadsheet (and yes I haven't been here for quite a while) I found a few comments relating to the German column, so here are the answers as far as I can give them:

near-harad

Near Harad

5,15

X

Nah-Harad

7

X

Translate "near" to Sindarin (not obvious)

According to PE 17 there is now a prefix that can be used: adh- by, near, beside (PE17:167)

lhun

Lhûn

5,11

X

River Lune

7,16

X

Luhn

13

Lune

not placed on map in sindarin, doube-check german spelling

Double-checked. In the Silmarillion its called: Fluß Lhûn (sindarin) in LOTR-Fellowship it's called Lun.

the-wold

13,

X

The Wold

9,17

X

Ödland

14

?

What does Öd mean literally? It's used in the German for Dead Marshes

Ödland literally means barren land, and it is used for a part of Rohan in LOTR-Two Towers. The Dead Marshes in German are Totensümpfe.

And last but not least there is now a group trying to get Tengwar into Unicode. Please see an example here: http://my.opera.com/tengwarblog/blog/ 

That might make it a lot easier to get the Tengwar to display without having to do every one by hand.

Hope this helps,

Eryniel

[Kris Kowal]

Thanks Eryniel. I’ll have to integrate these observations.

I definitely chose to draw the English and Elvish by hand for æsthetic reasons, but If I do another pass on the map, I intend to use a vector graphic and take advantage of web fonts and a transcriber I built for the purpose:

http://3rin.gs/tengwar/

This would have the happy side-effect of making location names linkable. I would also want to arc the lettering to follow the contours of the land, which is another interesting technical problem.

Kris Kowal

[Eryn Galen]

Hi Kris,

using a tengwar font I think means multiple technical advantages. If you know Gimp, there is the possibility to change the layout of text to follow curves etc. Once you get to the stage of actually doing it, I could help if you like.

Eryniel

2013/12/14 Kris Kowal <kris....@cixar.com>

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