Greetings all!
I hope I do not bother anyone by asking for some guidance here. I am a long time Lord of the Rings fan and when I was young I did try for a while to learn Sindarin but I never could figure it out. Alas, my time for Sindarin is taken now by other matters so I turn to you for help.
I am an archaeologist by trade and lately in the field I have been misplacing my tools and such in large projects. My crew mates all have ways of marking their equipment to keep track. I figure it is time for me to follow suit and I figure why not do in Sindarin Tengwar?
So my idea is to create a phrase that works as a sort of "tag" in Sindarin Tengwar that I can attach to my equipment. Obviously, I would like it to be archaeological in nature and to be accurate to the language. So I started poking around and found a few words I might be able to use. I'd like to keep it in the shorter side as I don't always have much room.
First question: Is there anyway to imply archaeology in the language as such a mark? Such as "history", "cultural", "dig" or "artifact" ? Or perhaps something with burials, tombs, and graves? Or "Artifact Seeker" for a laugh haha. Second: I found two words that might be along what I'm thinking. "Rosta-" and "Cef" for excavate and soil. Is excavate used the way I'm thinking it is? To dig? Would these two combined (rostacef?) be grammatically correct? [To] Dig Earth? And Three: where would be the best place to translate the final phrase into Tengwar? Some of these sites seem ... off.
Thank you so much in advance!