Meanings
tengwar1
- pluralplural of tengwa
Tengwar2
- A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya).
The translator uses the Tengwar script to display Sindarin.
2016 January 20, Anna Sorokina, “Want to translate from English to Elvish? Yandex can help”, in Russia Beyond5 more examples
He's now trying to arrange for a type font set in the Tengwar alphabet
1969, Leland Sapiro, editor, Riverside Quarterly, volume 4, page 75For example, Unicode hasn't yet incorporated Tengwar (an elvish script) into its official repertoire (although it's on the roadmap—there are, after all, many maps of Middle Earth).
2012, Jon Orwant, Programming Perl, →ISBN, page 311An innovative feature of the Tengwar is that the shapes of the individual letters were designed to record phonetic features
2013, Simon Horobin, Does Spelling Matter?, →ISBN, page 36The first article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in JRR Tolkien’s Tengwar script (transcribed from English).
2019 September 13, Bettina Beinhoff, “Want to build a language from scratch? Start with the question who will speak it, and why”, in Scroll.inThe poster for the mission, which is officially called NROL-101, sports a pretty clear Lord of the Rings theme, featuring a pair of interlocking golden rings and the phrase "goodness persists" written in both English and Elvish Tengwar script, the fictional language dreamed up entirely by author J.R.R. Tolkien himself.
2020 November 9, Eric Mack, “Next US military spy satellite launch has inexplicable Lord of the Rings theme”, in cNet
Origin
Developed by J. R. R. Tolkien. From tengwar, the term Tolkien invented to represent the glyphs found in Tengwar. From tengwa, the singular of "tengwar", a single glyph.
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Bulgarian те́нгвар
- те́нгвар (téngvar)Translations
Esperanto tengvaro
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French tengwar
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German Tengwar
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Hindi टेंगवार
- टेंगवार (ṭengvār)Translations
Italian tengwar
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Japanese テングワール
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Korean 텡과르
- 텡과르 (tenggwareu)Translations
Persian تنگوار
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Polish tengwar
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Russian те́нгвар
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Spanish tengwar
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Cite this entry
tengwar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tengwar
“tengwar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tengwar. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tengwar,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tengwar.
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