Transcriber, calendar & name workshop
Everything is computed in the browser — nothing you type leaves your device. Each tool shows its rule along with the result: correctness is the product here, not the decoration.
Two things are true of all three: they compute in your browser, and they show the rule they follow. The transcriber names the letter behind every sign it draws and says where its mode runs out; the calendar gives the reckoning of Appendix D along with the particulars that defeat a simple formula; the name workshop shows only elements Tolkien explained himself, and says so plainly when a pair of them meets in no name he made. None of them is a novelty generator — a wrong answer that looks right is worse here than no answer at all. Which is also why some things are missing: there is no mode of Beleriand, because ours cannot render it reliably, and no Ring-inscription, because it is Tolkien's own calligraphy.
A name in several scripts
Type a name, choose a mode, check the spelling — with the derivation of every single sign.
- Tengwar in two modes, and the Dwarvish Cirth
- German names are read by sound — every rule is shown
- A sheet to take away, as PNG or SVG
Shire calendar
Conversion after Appendix D — including the particulars that defeat every simple formula.
Every month has thirty days · the Lithe and Yule days fall outside the months · Overlithe in a leap year. In the Shire the weekday is fixed to the date — unlike ours.
Name workshop
The elements Tolkien built names from — each with its meaning, its language and every name that carries it.
- el-star
- -dôrland
- -mîrjewel
Further tools
Built, but living in their own sections rather than here.