Proper noun
Tengwar
A constructed script created by J. R. R. Tolkien for his invented Elvish constructed languages of Sindarin (ISO 639 code sjn) and Quenya (ISO 639 code qya).
As of 2014, the Tolkien Estate has made requests to desist from the publication of tengwar fonts after unapproved commercial use, claiming tengwar as falling under the intellectual property owned by them. Source: Internet
Encoding schemes Non-Unicode The contemporary de facto standard in the tengwar user community maps the tengwar characters onto the ISO 8859-1 character encoding following the example of the tengwar typefaces by Dan Smith. Source: Internet
Even closer to the tengwar is the Valmaric script, described in Parma Eldalamberon 14, which Tolkien used from about 1922 to 1925. Source: Internet
Except for some English abbreviations, it is not used in any of the better known tengwar modes, but it occurs in a Qenya mode where the tengwa Parma with extended stem is used for /pt/ and the tengwa Calma with extended stem is used for /kt/. Source: Internet
For each tengwar diacritic, there are four different codepoints that are used depending on the width of the character which bears it. Source: Internet
In addition to these variations of the tengwar shapes, there is yet another variation, the use of stems that are extended both above and below the line. Source: Internet