everythingquenya answered:

Hello there!

Quenya is a language that is written how it sounds. Now I know from danish that that letter “å” sounds a lot like an “o” so I would write it with the tengwar for o. However if you do want to write it with “aa” you would write a long tehtar and the normal “a” dots above it. A tehtar is a “empty” letter. It is only there to carry vowels that don’t have a consonant to carry them. A short tehtar is a short sounding vowel. A long tehtar makes a long sounding vowel.

Left a long tehtar with an “a”. Right “no”.

However with “e”, “o” and “u” there are ways to make it a long sounding vowel without using a long tehtar. I’ll see if I can scrounge up an example later.

There are a few vowel combinations that have their own tengwar. Those would be “ai”, “oi”, “ui”, “au” and “eu”. Otherwise you just have a row of tehtar as I described above. Again if you need it I think I can scrounge up an example later.

Now for your two examples of words:

Left “øya” and right “sauene”. The left I did like that because the first letter sounds like my german “ö” which is often written as “oe”. The letter that looks like an “a” is like a tehtar that it is empty, but it is only used to carry the letter “y” and any vowel that should come after it.



Now for “sauene” we have an example of one of the letter combinations I mentioned! The first letter is for “s” and right after that is “au”. A circle with the dots for “a” becomes “au” (while a cirlce with the line for “e” over it would become eu). After that is a tehtar with the letter “e”.

Hope this helps you and if you have any more questions I am available. :D