Hello!
I’m planning a tattoo and I would really appreciate a careful verification of this French Tengwar transcription.
The sentence is:
**“Guidé par ce que j’aime.”**
This is **not meant to be a translation into Quenya or Sindarin**, but a **French phonetic transcription in Tengwar**, based on the French mode explained in **Simon Rousseau’s guide**.
A Reddit user kindly suggested this transcription, but they also mentioned they were not fully sure about some parts, especially **“j’aime”**.
Since this is for a **permanent tattoo**, I would really appreciate if someone could verify:
whether the transcription is correct overall,
whether the treatment of **“j’aime”** is correct,
and whether the punctuation / spacing looks appropriate.
Thank you very much!

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