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Hesperides is an adaptation of Didier Willis’ Dragon Flame, a sindarin (the grey-elven language, invented by J.R.R. Tolkien) dictionary, to Mac OS X.

So, Mac Lovers can now be lambendili too : Hesperides integrates Didier’s sindarin dictionary, distributed on his web site as a XML file, with a state-of-the-art Mac OS X interface and the Narmacil engine (to display the words using Tengwar).

What’s New:
Version 1.2:

• Major architecture changes : Hesperides now supports AppleScript.
• Hesperides can now transcribe English words to Tengwar.
• Fixed major encoding problems in the Tengwar transcription (which turned out to be wrong for words with diacritics).
• Changed the indexing mechanism : the first launch will be really slow, but next ones should be as fast or faster than on 1.1

Developer’s website: Thomas Deniau