In this first lesson you’ll learn how to write the six vowels of Sindarin and we’ll use them on one consonant. The other consonants will follow in the next lessons.

Tolkien gave each tengwa a name and a number, and this is the first one:
te01

So it is the tengwa with number 1, its name is ‘tinco’ and it represents the sound ‘t’.
Note: ‘tinco’ is a Quenya word as the names of the tengwar are always in that language (and the words tengwa and tehta are in fact also Quenya).

Sindarin has 6 vowel sounds (we’ll meet the diphthongs in a later lesson). In the mode of Gondor each of these sounds is denoted by a different symbol called a tehta (plural tehtar):
te01

In the mode of Beleriand we write each vowel as a separate letter (like in English):
te01

Write these Sindarin tengwar in Latin letters: mode of Gondor:

te01

mode of Beleriand:

te01

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