Conlang Directory: Fiction: Tolkien

Black Speech

A fictional language invented by J.R.R. Tolkien. This is the language of the inscription on Bilbo Baggins' ring. Tolkien never described the whole language, and this article attempts to figure out some of the grammar and vocabulary based on inscriptions and their translations into English as reported by Tolkien in several of his books. The Yamada language institute has collected together some Tolkien fonts. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Quenya

A fictional language for Elves developed by J.R.R. Tolkien. This is a very long text file (~100K). The Yamada language institute has collected together some Tolkien fonts. [J.R.R. Tolkien]

Tengwar

A writing system J.R.R. Tolkien's used to write a number of languages including the Black Speech, Quenya, Sindarin, the Common Speech, and even English. This is a diagram of the font, showing how it should be mapped into Unicode. [J.R.R. Tolkien]