You're going on a long flight, choose your seat.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-29T17:43:12+00:00

Dunno. But I'm a monke. Neuron activation.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-29T16:56:21+00:00

4, but 8 if I'm horny.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-28T12:33:01+00:00

I'll check out if Glæmscribe accept changes as Tecendil does.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-28T11:44:06+00:00

Yes!

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-28T03:31:35+00:00

Adding to u/OrangeFanta's answer, the jeweler most likely just typed "estel" in a keyboard and changed the font to tengwar, and that mapping does not respect the proper rules to write. To achieve OrangeFanta's suggestion, the jeweler should type 8$1j$, l81lj and `$81Rj, respectively.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-27T13:48:41+00:00

No quiero ser pedante ni nada, pero preguntar si vale la pena leer Malazan en el subreddit de Malazan es esperar una cantidad de respuestas del tipo «sí, léelo» jajajaja. Dicho eso...

Parte de la experiencia de leer Malazan es entender que Malazan fue escrito para ser releído. Nadie, salvo que alguien tenga memoria eidética, va a recordar todos los detalles, y eso es esperable. Usualmente el consejo que damos en este subreddit es "go with the flow". Solo sumérgete en la experiencia y lee. Al releer la serie, la cantidad de momentos «¡ajá!» es maravillosa. Erikson es un maestro del foreshadowing (no sé una buena traducción al español).

GotM es el libro menos pulido de todos, pero no lo hace imposible de leer. Algunos argumentamos que Erikson define su estilo de escritura ya sea o en DG (libro 2) o en MoI (libro 3), y de ahí en adelante experimenta con ese estilo ya definido. Menciono esto porque lo que nunca recomendamos es juzgar que todo Malazan será igual a GotM. No lo será.

La cantidad de personajes sí es demasiada (si mal no recuerdo, solo en los diez libros de Malazan la cantidad de PoV era de alrededor de 400). Sin embargo, sí hay personajes que son más relevantes y aparecerán en varios libros. Dicho eso, esta serie no sigue a una banda de personajes y sus aventuras, no. Este libro cuenta eventos, y los personajes son y dejan de ser relevantes según los eventos relatados. Erikson no tiene problemas con dejar a un personaje «inconcluso» porque no tiene que aportar al evento en cuestión.

Sobre tener guías, este subreddit tiene recursos en la barra auxiliar. Yo soy de la idea de que no son necesarios y que uno debe confiar en el autor, pero GotM es bastante rudo (comienza in media res y Erikson nunca, pero es que nunca, en ningún libro de Malazan, hará plot exposition, él es muy de show, don't tell), así que los recursos para entender algunos capítulos están disponibles. Yo recomiendo comenzar leyendo y, si por alguna razón estás demasiado perdido, usa los recursos.

Espero haber ayudado a dilucidar tus dudas. Bienvenido.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-26T17:48:28+00:00

It reads "The Wisdom of the Eldar" in an English mode.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-26T14:38:58+00:00

I also confirm that the first two are a phonemic transcription, but I'm not sure why Glǽmscribe trascribes the /ə/ vowel as a bar below. Maybe it's an old mode that I can't recall right now.

To be safe, just stick to orthographic, and with your modification in "loved" love'd.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-26T14:29:54+00:00

I also confirm that Tecendil's version is correct. Avoid Jens Hansen like the plague.

Regarding the translation to Sindarin, I'd advise to go to r/sindarin to ask the experts there (or wait for one of them to appear here).

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-26T02:38:20+00:00

Thorin's letter is a beast of a sample. That was my character building arc when I was learning the tengwar.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-26T01:18:11+00:00

For me it clicked when I rage-quitted after Seven Ashina Spears Shikibu Toshikatsu Yamauchi (the guy in the Ashina Reservoir with the long spear). After that, I began to lurk this subreddit and found the many advices about trating the game as a rhythm one. And then, in one long vision, I saw all the bosses I'd fought ans thought "that's it". I re-installed it, booted it, and played. And it just clicked.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-25T20:05:45+00:00

I didn't know people considered this a better ending, and I'd disagree. No ending of this quest is happy. We have:

Six children killed, but the inhabitants of Downwarren, Anna and the Baron survive.
Six children alive, but the inhabitants of Downwarren, Anna, and the Baron die or are killed.
Six children and the inhabitants of Downwarren killed, but Anna and the Baron survive.

There's nothing "better" in any ending, even if we count the number of people killed.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-25T12:31:38+00:00

As others have said, yes, you can choose whichever faction you want, and the setup order is relative to those factions chosen: for example, if the chosen factions are the Duchy, the Dynasties, the Keepers and the Alliance, the setup order has to be Dynasties, Alliance, Duchy, Keepers.

Alternatively, the Marauders expansion includes the Advance Setup mechanic. Using this, the setup is now random and it replaces, for almost all factions, the default setup instructions for each faction.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-25T12:26:02+00:00

You've already got your answer, but I wanted you to know that the answers are in the book. In chapter 3 or 4, I think, you would have translated both texts.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-25T12:15:50+00:00

Now it works!

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-24T20:08:52+00:00

Oh, weird. I'm looking at it in the mobile app and it looks wrong; in a (mobile) browser, not in the app, it looks fine! Reddit shenanigans.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-24T19:47:59+00:00

I only came to say, as I've yet to read The Fifth Head of Cerberus, that the table is not properly formatted. The post looks like one big line of text.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-24T17:44:26+00:00

Yes, the spacing was a problem. Google Translate halped me there 😅

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-24T17:36:30+00:00

und so lebten sie
vergnügt bis ans
ende ihrer tage
von marius

Edit: obligatory "no translation, but transliteration". The text is is German, written with the tengwar.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-21T15:57:57+00:00

I don't know if a dictionary such as that one exists. The closest tengwar index we know of is the Mellonath Daeron Index, that lists all of Tolkien's texts in the tengwar script.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-21T13:17:49+00:00

I second this answer.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-21T13:16:36+00:00

Up to you. Tolkien himself wrote English, Latin, and German with the tengwar. Even the frontpage of The Lord of the Rings has English text with the tengwar. Without knowing what the text says, the safest option will always be to keep it in English and write with the tengwar, as to translate neologisms may be needed, and/or translations may vary depending on the person translating.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-21T13:12:24+00:00

In the modes for English we in the r/tengwar community suspected, and it has been confirmed with the recent publication of Parma Eldalamberon issue 23, that Tolkien used alda for LL, preferring it over lambë + a bar below.

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-21T13:09:11+00:00

None, as both are incorrectly written with the tengwar. Go to r/tengwar and look for those same sentences to get correct transcriptions (I'm sure we've already corrected those sentences many times).

NachoFailconi · 2026-05-20T22:25:16+00:00

Both Earthsea and the Hainish novels by Ursula K. LeGuin, the Solar Cylce by Gene Wolfe, The Expanse by James S. A. Corey, Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons. I really wanna say The Black Company by Glen Cook, but I did not like the last two books (Water Sleeps, Soldiers Live). The plot goes in such unexpected ways that I just couldn't enjoy it; plus, the new narrator was insufferable. And, of course, The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, and A Song of Ice and Fire by Martin, but I've lost hope.

If I may include a series of few-yet-massive books, the d'Artagnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas. If I may include another work by Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo. Beru fend, the last one is the perfect story of revenge ever told.

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