A sound that is treated in a special way in Sindarin tengwar is ‘w’.
In following consonant clusters the ‘w’ is represented by a kind of elongated tilde:
In the mode of Gondor these are as follows:
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When in this mode ‘ngw’ has a tehta on it the ‘w’-tilde is abbreviated to a comma:
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And in the mode of Beleriand we find the, by now usual, difference between the shapes of the ‘g’-sounds:
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When the ‘w’ appears in another location we have following possibilities:
• in the combination ‘aw’ at the end of a word: this is the form the diphthong ‘au’ takes at the end of a word (see lesson 10)
• in certain Noldorin words ‘w’ appears after other consonants, but then we replace it by the vowel ‘u’ (gwelw = gwelu ‘air’)
• we have met the combination ‘hw’ in lesson 9
• in all other situations we use following tengwa:
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Write these Sindarin words in Latin letters:
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