Elvish

Welcome to the Elvish section of AUO! Here are some great resources for learning both Quenya and Sindarin, as well as translations of songs, poems, weapon enscriptions and other things that you see in the movies and books!! 

Some of these websites are very extensive, offering courses on Quenya and Sindarin, dictionaries, lessons on elvish writing systems, name lists, and much more! 

I hope you find them all helpful!

Quenya

https://folk.uib.no/hnohf/wordlists.htm

http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/ppq.htm

http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/language1.htm#quengrammar

https://www.elvish.org/gwaith/movie_elvish.htm

https://www.jenshansen.com/pages/online-english-to-elvish-engraving-translator

Name generators

Name generators are not always accurate in the presentation of Tolkien languages, but that doesnt stop them from being fun! 😄 You might want to try some of these!

http://chriswetherell.com/elf

https://realelvish.net/names/generator/

Neo-Elvish

Neo-Elvish is the mix of real Tolkien Elvish and non-Tolkien attempts at filling in the gaps of the language that Tolkien wasn't able to fill before his death. As a result some teachings and translations of Elvish may differ depending on who is presenting them, and may not be totally accurate to what Tolkien did leave behind. 

Books On Elvish

There are many books available these days for teaching elvish. But many Tolkien fans and scholars argue their accuracy, however they tend to teach decent basics of the writing systems and some other things. I've mentioned a few books below and added some reviews with them as you might consider using one to study with. 

Gateway To Sindarin by David Salo

*Review by Tolkien Gateway

*Review by Synariel: It's great for learning the writing systems but this book is hecka technical. I dont understand a lot of the linquistic footnote symbols and stuff that he uses. However if you can understand it, or muscle through learning what all of the symbols mean, it is very extensive.

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle Earth

By Ruth S. Noël

*Review by elvish.org

*Review by Synariel: This book, though said to have many inaccuracies, is very special to me because it was a Christmas present, and my very first ever book on Elvish and Tolkien's other languages. And it's what first taught me to write Elvish (along with omniglot.com). It's a very simple book, fun to look at and I really like it's pronunciation guide (which is accurate). It also has a dictionary, as well as an English-Elvish dictionary. I can't attest to how accurate it is in its' entirety, but a lot of it seems to matche up well with what we see from David Salo-Tolkien Elvish in the movies.

Sindarin-English English-Sindarin Dictionary by J-M Carpenter

Reviews: Seems to have a lot of good reviews on Amazon, so it's well liked, but I couldn't find anything online about it's accuracy.

The Return of The King Appendix E

In the back of The Return of The King there some appendices which extra information on elvish, including a small dictionary and the Elvish alphabet.