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Posted in Elvish on Dec 23rd, 2005
I like to think that sophisticated readers like you come to my site for the sparkling prose and pointed insights, but when I look at my logs, it’s plain that Elvish pays the bills. My little page Write your name in Elvish in ten minutes has tickled some kind of popular resonance. It’s been around [...]
Posted in Elvish on May 3rd, 2005
My Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes continues to be the leading traffic generator for my site. Since that’s where the crowd is, I spent some time tonight freshening things up a bit. In particular I’m providing more examples that treat doubled vowels, something I get asked about a lot in email.
I’m also [...]
Posted in Elvish on Jun 29th, 2004
I Am Bored, a site where you can lazily click on random new and marginally interesting stuff when you’re bored, has picked up my Elvish-in-Ten-Minutes page. According to their ratings page, I’m the second most highly rated page (3.6 out of 4 stars) right now, just two notches above Dwight’s Amazing Cat Collection of funny [...]
Posted in Elvish on Mar 30th, 2004
The dramatic explosion of interest in Elvish tattoos seems to have faded. The Oscars are safely over, Elijah Wood hardly appears in People magazine anymore, and babies are being named “Frodo” far less often than in months past. For those sturdy souls out there who are still interested in learning how to write Elvish (and [...]
Posted in Elvish on Jan 2nd, 2004
There has been such an enthusiastic response to my entry last summer on Elvish writing (i.e. The Return of the King just came out) that I am opening a side business in Elvish calligraphy. There is brisk business to be done in Elvish tattoos these days. If you want something written in Elvish, whether for [...]
Posted in Elvish on Aug 14th, 2003
I was a serious Tolkien geek as a boy. Around sixth grade I taught myself the Elvish writing that Tolkien invented for the Lord of the Rings. In fact, he created both a language and a character set; these characters, you may recall, decorate the One Ring.
If you don’t mess with the actual Elvish language, [...]
