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Guys I have an urgent question

I have this saved in my files as “Galadriel’s ring speech”, but I have no idea where I got it from and it seems suspicious to me

but I suck at both Quenya and tengwar

so

can anyone please tell me if this is, in fact, some rendition of “you offer it to me freely, instead of a dark lord you will set up a queen, not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morning” etc? Either in English just transcribed into tengwar or in Quenya?

caraval tári yasse lána haru anca. ar avan lán, mal vanama ar rácamav iaran ar i lán! vanya ve i ar ar anar ar i lasse i arantan! naira ve láre ar i calmal! antalca lá talamar ambara. alya ní malva ar mama!

My translation of the passage from yonks ago is: Caruval Tári yassë Lúna Heru engë. Ar úvan lúna, mal vanima ar rúcima ve i Arin ar i Lómë! Vanya ve i Eär ar Anar ar i Lossë i Orontenna! Naira ve Lúrë ar i calimale*! Antulca lá Talmar Ambaro. Ilya ní meluva ar þorya.

So it looks like it’s a badly transcribed version of that or something to that effect.

Original Text: Grey Tree-Jumper These little animals sleep in big round houses made of sticks and leaves high up in the branches.

Leaves Trees make power from the Sun’s light using leaves. The green stuff in leaves eats light (and the kind of air we breath out) and turns it into power (and the kind of air we breath in).

Quenya Translation: Sindë Alda-Capil Tittë celvar sinë humë sé altë cornë coar carina lassion ar olwenion tára olvannar.

Lassi Aldar capë tuo calallo Anaron lassinen. I laicë nati lassessen matir cala (ar vista etsúyalvë) ar vistar sa tuonna (ar vista súyalvë minna).

Lit: Grey Tree-Jumper These little animals sleep in big round houses made of leaves and of sticks upon lofty branches.

Leaves Trees make power from the light of the Sun using leaves. The green things inside leaves eat light (and air we breathe out) and changes it into power (and air we breathe in).

Notes:

Deriving an agental form from cap- “to jump” was tricky. I could have used some more ordinary suffixes, but the is one, -llë, that has been used both as an agental suffix and as a diminutive. Since we’re talking about squirrels here, I figured having both would work! But, you can’t have a consonant cluster like ‘pll’… I considered squirming a -i- in there, as -llë may be a variant of -il (thus combining them into -illë, and anyway, adding in a -e- or -i- to avoid consonant clusters is not un-heard of), but, I felt in my heart of hearts that it wouldn’t be proper, so I just went with -il.

I also considered using the genitive noun case; effectively, jumper of trees, or trees’ jumper. I’m not sure if the meaning is entirely accurate, and hyphenated words are pretty standard (and favored by Tolkien, for obvious reasons if you ever read a good translation of Beowulf), so I stuck with that.

There is no glossed verb for “to sleep” but there is a noun, “fúmë”, which would be read “húmë” in Tolkien’s later Quenya, which means “sleep” and implies a verbal stem hum- “to sleep”, as the suffix -ë and a lengthening of the stem vowel is often used to turn a verbal stem into a noun; in other words, the un-glossed verbal stem hum- “to sleep” turned into a noun would have the u become ú and a -e stuck onto the end, becoming húmë “sleep”.

I’m not sure of my allative case ending for “upon branches”, as it is usually used in the sense of going towards something, but there are other attested examples of it being used for “upon” so I think I’m safe.

I’ll say right now that there is no word for “power” that works in this context; trees don’t get their energy from Morgoth (at least, I hope not), so I went with a word that roughly means “physical strength” instead. I hope that’s closer to the meaning of “that which allows one to perform actions” more than “that which allows one to raise volcanos from the earth”. Maybe if we’re talking about Ents wielding swords, I’ll use a different word.

I’m bad with noun cases at the best of times, so I’m really hoping “calallo Anaron” translates to “from the light of the Sun”. I’m pretty sure it is.

I thought of using the ablative case for “the air we breathe out” but I used the prefix et- instead. Probably because noun cases scare me.

I’m just going to say that “and changes it into power (and air we breathe in)” took me about a solid hour to do, and I’m not happy with it. There was no word for “turn” in the context of “become” (the only ones I found were in the context of “turn around”) so I had to use “change”, but I don’t know if using the transitive verb was correct. I used it simply because I don’t know. And then came the problem of “into power”. There’s no preposition or noun case that I’m aware of that implies something becoming something else. But, I know that the available prepositions have more concrete meanings, and that case endings are a bit more flexible. Also, did I miss a plural? I feel like I missed a plural. I feel that very strongly. Or maybe I’m just hungry.

“Sindë Alda-Capil Tittë celvar sinë humë sé altë cornë coar carina lassion ar olwenion tára olvannar.“

Tittë celvar sinë humir (plural verb).

You can use the locative case here alte corne coassen “in old round houses”.

Cárinë “made” the passive participle does take a plural marker. (XD)

Tárë - plural adjective

“Lassi Aldar capë tuo calallo Anaron lassinen. I laicë nati lassessen matir cala (ar vista etsúyalvë) ar vistar sa tuonna (ar vista súyalvë minna).“

Aldar carir (plural verb, and typo car- not cap-)

Anar is a singular noun, so the genitive is Anaro.

I’ve seen quer- used for ‘to become’. So you could have querir tuonna.

The s in súya comes from þ so there might be a problem with adding et- straight to it, since etþ would not have worked.

Original Text: Pointy Cat This animal walks around slowly, climbing trees and eating leaves and sticks. It’s covered in sharp points that can stick in your skin, so most animals don’t bother it.

Quenya Translation: Cendëa Yaulë Sina celva vanta nómennar lencaya, retalar aldar ar matalar lassi ar olweni. Nás topina mí aicë cendi ya polë himya helmannalya, sië rimbë celvar harer oa sallo.

Lit.: Pointy Cat This animal walks to places slowly, climbing trees and eating leaves and sticks. It is covered in sharp points that can adhere to your skin, thus numerous animals stay away from it.

Notes:

As far as I am aware, Quenya has no translation for ‘bother’, or for aggravate, alarm, bore, disgust, dismay, disturb, embarrass, exacerbate, hinder, irk, irritate, nag perplex, perturb, plague, torment, trouble, upset, or worry. Thus I was forced to use a circumlocution; instead of “don’t bother it”, I went with “stay away from it”. Similar in concept, but a different meaning.

Some words were not glossed, and so were created using the usual methods of participle and adjectival suffixes.

Sina (and tana, etc.) follow the noun it describes so Celva sina.

Adverbs if they are describing the noun’s usual method of being would not need the adverbial suffix, so I would probably just have lenca, as the slowness is really a property of the animal not the walking.

The active participle doesn’t take a plural marker, and the stem vowel is lengthened, so rétala and mátala.

The passive participle also has a lengthened stem vowel, so tópina.

The preposition mí doesn’t quite sit with me in this sentence either... since here the English in doesn’t mean inside and mí certainly has the nuance of inside/within. I can’t think of a solution except creating a noun from the verb and using the genitive to have “a covering of sharp points” so IDK.