Sindarin is a fictional language invented by J.R.R. Tolkien
and spoken by the Grey-elves or Sindar in his books
about Middle-earth (The Hobbit, The Lord of the
Rings, The Silmarillion, etc). Sindarin is loosely
based on Welsh and was originally called Gnomish. The name Sindarin
is in fact Quenya - an old native name for the language is Eglathrin.
Sindarin is can be written with a number of alphabets, including
the Latin alphabet, Cirth and Tengwar. The Tengwar script for Sindarin
can be written with vowel diacritics (Standard Mode), or with separate
symbols for vowels (the Mode of Beleriand).
Tengwar for Sindarin
Consonants
Vowels
Notes
In the Sindarin Standard Mode the short vowels symbols (tehtar) are written on the short vowel carrier (telco) when they appear at the end of a word. Overwise they are written on the consonant that follows them.
Long vowels are either written with the long vowel carrier (ára)
In the mode of Beleriand vowels are written with separate letters
When a word begins with i followed by another vowel, the i is written with the letter yanta and pronounced [j]
At the ends of words r is written with óre rather than rómen.
