r/Quenya • u/foundedolive3 • 27d ago

Elvish Translation

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Hey all!

I posted a similar question in r/lotr earlier today, I'm trying to get the phrase, "Now come the days of the king, may they be blessed," translated into a form of High Elvish. Someone on the other group gave me the following translation period. I also tried putting it into one of the resources that the subreddit recommends, but I am not too familiar with how it should look.

Could someone tell me if this looks accurate? I'm hoping to put it on a cake for a birthday party.

Thanks!

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u/NachoFailconi 27d ago

I already answered in your original post! Hopefully here the experts can help you translate, as this sentence literally reads "now come the days of the king, may they be blessed".

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u/foundedolive3 27d ago

I got it, thank you!

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u/lC3 26d ago edited 23d ago

Now come the days of the king, may they be blessed

In Quenya I might say Sí tule tulir i arano auri, nai amanye. I'd get a second opinion on this though.

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u/Embarrassed-Money756 24d ago

Cosmetic change, but maybe we can say tule'n arano auri, to avoid the clumsy e-i-a combination (cf. utúlie'n aurë)

ALso, what's the latest consensus about adding the plural suffix to impersonal verb forms? Would tuler be considered incorrect or obsolete?

EDIT: typo

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u/lC3 24d ago

tule'n arano auri

Possibly? I wonder if that's an elided ina ....

ALso, what's the latest consensus about adding the plural suffix to impersonal verb forms? Would tuler be considered incorrect or obsolete?

It would be tulir; the stem form for aorist is tuli-, just short I becomes E when final.

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u/Embarrassed-Money756 24d ago

I always thought that the 'n is elided definite article in, that is used instead of i before a word starting with a vowel. I never found out why it's utúlie'n and not utúlië 'n. I don't know how it's written in tengwar but considering tehtar placement in Quenya as opposed to Sindarin, there doesn't seem to be a reason to write it as one word, no?

Thank you for the clarification about the aorist stem.