This is just a note to let everyone know that I still, unfortunately, have not had a chance to continue work on TTP. It, however, has not been dropped! I have all my notes, drawings, transcriptions, etc on file and daily wish that I was pulling them out to work on.
Of the many thing currently going on, I am still working my way through graduate school and am in the middle of a research project focused on post-mortem/bereavement photography. I have also taken over the Editor-in-Chief's position at the peer reviewed journal The Tuckasegee Valley Historical Review .
This project is still very near and dear to my heart, and will be completed if it is the last thing I do. One thing that I have been working on behind the scenes, is trying to figure out how this book (which I originally planned on being a one-off) might be eventually replicated/re-printed. Most of my ideas at the moment involve Adobe In-Design, Adobe Photoshop, and a lot of hand-touching up of high quality scans. I have very little knowledge in this area, however, and would love to hear ideas you may have. Feel free to send them via e-mail if you do not wish to post below. My e-mail is located in the "About Me" section on the right hand bar.
I hope to see everyone soon!
2 comments:
Hi Hilary, I've just found out about your Tengwar Project through Facebook and can't believe that some-one has finally got the Gall to do this! I Tried it with the Tolkien Songs and poems from the Lord of the rings, but stopped for 2 reasons, 1) I wasn't good enough at the tengwar and 2) I can't draw to save my life so it would have been un-illustrated! Fortunatley, I have got better at the tengwar (although I'm still learning) but am still very poor at drawing! lol!
I was wondering which mode you write in, i.e. Quenya or Sindarin?
I really hope that when your schedual allows you will take this project up again and not forsake it. I for one would love a copy of it when it gets finished!
All the best,
Nikki
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Nikki,
Thank you for your lovely comments! If you want to read about my method you can find it here - http://thetengwarproject.blogspot.com/2008/11/transcription-method-to-my-madness.html. Given that I can transcribe, but have never seemed to completely grasp Sindarin on Quenyan translation, the mode is based on Tolkien's English transcriptions. Everything I do is largely based on what Chris McKay's Tengwar Textbook refers to as "Original Mode" which is a slightly rougher form of transcription with a foundation in Tolkien's examples within the book, and in a letter to Hugh Brogan. I have made a couple of concessions to Christopher Tolkien's rather different English mode for stylistic reasons, but as Christopher Tolkien's mode is so different AND is phonetically based, I have chosen not to rely on it in a only one or two instances.
Life unfortunately has caught up with me and kept me from using any of my time for this project as of late, but I have not given up entirely. I have all my notes, drawings, and plans on file and plan on coming back from hiatus as soon as I am able. I had originally been planning to make a one-off (single volume) but have been trying to figure out lately how I might create one volume that could then be reprinted. After all, this is a lot of time to invest in something that would only exist in one instance :)
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