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Writing With Elvish Fonts. This is a tutorial for some of the fonts and tools that can be used for writing in Tengwar on a Windows PC. Contents Direct links to some notes in the text: "About installing fonts"; "A frequently asked question about TengScribe"; "A possible problem with Windows 2000 and XP".

About this tutorial [ToC] This tutorial will show how the Tengwar , J.R.R. The text is primarily targeted for readers with little or no previous experience in using the Tengwar. Some of the tools that are introduced here can in fact be used without knowing much about the Tengwar, but the user should be aware of their limitations. About the Tengwar Tengwar is the most prominent of Tolkien's invented writing systems. Cirth ("runes"), and will not be discussed here. In their fictional setting, the Tengwar came to be known in a wide geographic area, and were used for writing many Elvish and non-Elvish languages.

Modes Using a keyboard designed for the Latin alphabet for writing in any of these modes is far from ideal. Tehtar. Mary Ellen Walsh Writer | Journalist, Fiction Writer, Public Relations. 100 Websites You Should Know and Use. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. Books that will induce a mindfuck. Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author.

Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction. Scholomance. The Scholomance was fabled to be a legendary school of black magic run by the Devil, supposedly located near an unnamed lake in the mountains south of the city of Hermannstadt (Nagyszeben in Hungarian, now called Sibiu in Romanian) in the Transylvania region of Romania. In folklore[edit] Emily Gerard, a Scottish author married to a Polish cavalryman stationed in Romania, gave a detailed description in her article "Transylvanian Superstitions" on page 136 of The Nineteenth Century: As I am on the subject of thunderstorms, I may as well here mention the Scholomance, or school supposed to exist somewhere in the heart of the mountains, and where all the secrets of nature, the language of animals, and all imaginable magic spells and charms are taught by the devil in person.

Katherine Ramsland describes the nine remaining scholars, known as Solomonari, as "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool... In literature[edit] And in chapter 23: In computer games[edit] References[edit] Gerard, Emily. Scholomance: The Devil's School. Widbook, red social para escribir y compartir libros digitales. Widbook es una propuesta interesante para los apasionados de la lectura y aquellos autores que desean compartir sus libros. Se presenta como la primera red social dedicada a que sus usuarios puedan escribir íntegramente un libro, para luego compartirlo e iniciar una interacción a partir de ello. Para lograr ese propósito la plataforma ofrece las herramientas necesarias, para que la creación de un libro resulte sencilla para los autores desde la misma interfaz, sin necesidad de acudir a aplicaciones o servicios web. Podremos personalizar cada detalle de nuestro libro a medida que lo vamos escribiendo, además de poder integrar fotografías o videos.

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