Please note, that text for transcription should be spelled correctly according to chosen language. Any inappropriate characters will be encoded wrong or skipped. For example, this tool will not convert Qenya “k” to Late Quenya “c”, so the result with Qenya may be wrong.
Whitespaces are ignored, but you can use underscore ( _ ) or non-breakable space (Alt + 0160) to force a space;
Apostrophe ( ' ) is treated as glottal stop in Tengwar Black Speech mode;
Diaresis over vowels in Tengwar Beleriand mode forces overdot, “ ï ” also forces a long carrier with overdot;
Symbols “
~” and “
%” may be used to force “
S-hooks” (unvoiced and voiced respectively) in Tengwar (only if option for automatic placing of
S-hooks is turned off);
Symbols “
>” and “
<” may be used as start and end text markers, as in
Ring Inscription;
Symbols “@” and “|” force “ossë” and “halla” in Quenya mode;
Only decimal numbers are accepted (no automatic re-basing to duodecimal system);
Symbol “\” may be used in any tengwar mode to “escape” the following character – it will remain the same in Dan Smith's encoding – use to insert additional tengwar unknown to BSSScribe;
BSSScribe supports (experimentally) “raw-tengwar” syntax compatible with Glǽmscribe, Tecendil but with some extensions (full list will be published later after proper testing);
Symbols “|” and “_” may be used in English mode to imitate J.R.R. Tolkien's writing, e.g. “here|in”, “of_the”, “and|e” to render as in DTS 5 (97RË5%, W:, 2P#È accordingly).
Symbols “*”, “%”, “[”, “]”, “{”, “}”, “=”, “`”, “~”, “/”, “|”, “\” are used for pseudo-graphics with Cirth Erebor fonts 1 and 2;
Cyrillic mode of Tengwar is based on Benct Philip Jonsson proposal (
Download PDF). Except “щ” in Russian is encoded with alternate tehtar “aha”
A instead of “aha” with palatalization diacritics
dÍ; rare reversed tehtar for nasalized vowels are encoded with combination of nasalization mark and regular tehtar with fonts that don't support reversed tehtar;
English phonemic modes of Tengwar and Cirth use pronunciation dictionaries (General American dialect), therefore it's not possible to override just one character – the whole word should be transcripted with “raw” syntax.