{"id":374,"date":"2010-09-07T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2010-09-07T13:54:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T20:54:51","slug":"mman-ar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=374","title":{"rendered":"ámman îar"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many of you may be aware, David J. Peterson<\/a> has posthumously awarded his annual ~:D Smiley Award<\/a> to David Bell’s Tolkien-inspired conlang ámman îar<\/a>. Being that we just commemorated the anniversary of Prof. Tolkien’s death, it seemed appropriate on this blog to also highlight the work of David Bell.<\/p>\n

I had been dimly aware of ámman îar for some time, but the Smiley Award got me to take another look at it. Evidently, previous looks were cursory at best. I had no idea of the depth of detail that had been included. One page that caught my eye this time was the script<\/a> which David Bell created for his language. Many conlangers are familiar with Tengwar<\/a> clones. Bell’s is definitely not<\/em> a clone but rather a well-thought-out evolution of the scripts of Middle-earth into a cursive form. At first glance, his tal-eglar<\/em> looks like cursive letters in any Roman-script alphabet. However, on closer inspection, they are firmly based in the tradition of the script of Feanor<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Smiley Award write-up does a great job of highlighting some of the finer points of Bell’s creation, but to truly appreciate it, one needs to delve deeply into his web site, now preserved at graywizard.conlang.org<\/a>. You will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n

(For past Smiley Award winners, click here<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you may be aware, David J. Peterson has posthumously awarded his annual ~:D Smiley Award to David Bell’s Tolkien-inspired conlang ámman îar. Being that we just commemorated the anniversary of Prof. Tolkien’s death, it seemed appropriate on this blog to also highlight the work of David Bell. I had been dimly aware […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,15,29],"tags":[100,98,84,99],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award","category-conlangers","category-conlanging","tag-mman-ar","tag-david-bell","tag-david-j-peterson","tag-smiley-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}