tolkienlanguages1-4  Exercise 1: How Tengwar Is Organised
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A sample answer.

Letters are laid out in a table: four series (témar) match the place in the
mouth where a sound is made, and six grades (tyeller) match the manner. A
stem and one or two bows make each letter, and the shape shows where it
sits in the table.

What is gained: related sounds look related (a stroke added to a bow can
add voicing), so the script teaches phonetics and is easy to extend.

Vowel marks (tehtar):
  circumflex  a      acute  e      dot  i      left curl  o      right curl  u