FORUMSHIRE ART GALLERY

what about people who are not from those places? I still think some Elvish would be nice, I wonder if the Loremasters know how to spell Forumshire in Elvish? you know what would be cool but probably a bit complicated, if we had the doors of Moria open to reveal your video of Forumshireland, showing a screencap of the various lands, and above it in Elvish the words 'speak Forumshire and enter'. probably a bit much however?

Those were just examples Mrs Figg- we would need an Englandshire- an Italianshire or somesuch and a United Shires of America too or some other suitable name.
I'm sure our resident Lore Masters could translate speak Forumshire and enter however.

I like Bree. (for me anyway)

Pettytyrant101 wrote: (...) I'm sure our resident Lore Masters could translate speak Forumshire and enter however.

I'm no linguist but we know pedo mellon a minno means 'speak, friend, and enter' with mellon being friend.

The word for 'Shire' appears to be *Trann -- if we lift i-Drann from The King's Letter anyway (in which example the initial consonant has mutated, I would say).

I'm not sure about the potential fruit of trying to break down the word 'forum' for translation into some Neo-word, if there's nothing better, but athrabeth 'conversation' is attested anyway.


And I don't know a Grey-elven word for 'however' however

Oh, upon reading more of this thread it appears a transcription of 'forumshire' is wanted rather, or the whole 'speak forumshire and enter (however)' -- that is, written in the Elvish characters, not in an Elvish language.

Yes?

probably Elven characters would be better?

It would be easier to transcribe the English into Elvish writing, yes, but only because of the seeming problem of translating 'forumshire' so far (maybe someone else has an idea there) -- as (as noted by Norc) we have most of this in the tongue of the Sindar already, and already written in the Mode of Beleriand too.

That said, for myself I have no skill at the magic of making pictures appear on this modern device, and am too set in my ways to learn. Calligraphy with a pen for me! Dipped in magic boar's blood when I can get it, which is not often since I'll slay no beast for it.

forumshire in elven characters. It's really bad because I wrote it in paint.

OOhh I like that Norc! Yes I do indeed. Makes a very nice logo. Good work.

seriously well, the idea maybe, but the writing there is terrible

Not that actual one- in that we'd need to get it a bit neater, and maybe use a more calligraphy style stroke (I know thats what youve gone for there- but needs a bit of work yet)- but the shapes- most definetly.

It might look a bit better once a stylish font is chosen

And for myself, I would put the last vowel (e) beneath the last consonant. Or did JRRT not do this in English, word final examples? I think he placed the dot beneath the character called rómen in 'herein' in any event, in The Lord of the Rings.

I agree, Elthir, it looks better that way. I always hate when you get that last pole at the end. or in the middle. it doesn't look quite right.

can download elvish here:
http://www.fontspace.com/category/tengwar

This is what is great about Forumshire- artistic collaboration! Lore Masters keeping it all correct, artists creating logos, and an actual end product- a Forumshire T-shirt!

woop woop!

(downloaded a font, but I cannot figure out how to use them)

If youve got a word processor you should be able to import it into it.

nono, it works fine, it's just all the letters are a bit hard to work out where are. complicated. that's all. Could someone else please download it too and help me decode it? I know I'm Sherlock's equal and all, but I need a watson at the moment

Which one am I downloading? There's loads!

third from the top. I finally managed my own name, but it took forever D:


don't even think it's correct :S I couldn't get the a where I wanted it so I tried the other way (placing the following vowel on top of the letter it follows)

(edit: it says Onar.. I failed)

oooh! I'm getting the hang of this! Forumshire everyone!

Um well this is a bit embarrising. Downloaded it but for the life of me cant work out how to import it into GIMP- I did it before with the Aniron font from that website, but can't remember how to do it!


Ohhh brilliant Norc! I can not worry about it now and get back to drinking!

haha
pedo mellon a minno

why the face?