style guide

Guidelines partly unfollowed, here as a reference. You are welcome to find it useful.



dates

Dates are to be listed in the format of: 'DD of M, YYYY.' Accompany with 'CE' or 'BCE' as appropriate. Add the Imladris reckoning date with the format of: 'Weekday DD, Month.'

Example: 22nd of October, 2025 CE (Gregorian) | Orgilion 53, Firith (Imladris reckoning).

hedge words

As Xanthe Tynehoorn said: Hedge words (“kind of”, “a little”, “somewhat”, “rather”) are the weeds that slip in and infect perfectly good texts.

language integrity & translation

➸ Do not italicise words to indicate their 'foreignness.' See poem 'Kupu rere kē' by Alice Te Punga Somerville, in the book Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised.

➸ Proper nouns should not be presented in unneccessary English forms. Ex: Köln, not Cologne.

➸ Provide both transliteration and original text when appropriate/relevant.

other

As George Orwell said, 'Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.'

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