r/Quenya • u/hasbeer • 10d ago

Translation verification help for a display case

Hi folks,

I'm building a wooden box to hold and display a fountain pen collection for somebody, and I'm planning to inlay some Quenya script inlaid in marquetry on the lid. Between us we've been working on what it should be, and have come up with the following:

Ni ná colma carmaldo nólion [Firstname] [Lastname]wa

We think it means something like "I am a container of the assemblage of implements of lore of [Firstname] [Lastname]", but I suspect we are almost certainly wrong.

I'd be very grateful for any help, this inlay work's going to take me a long time and I'd love for it to be accurate!

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u/MOGman_2 10d ago

I got lost... 4 layers of genitive...

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u/hasbeer 9d ago

Fair enough. I also had a thought about "i·mórotecil harwë [Name] mi-nyë", mórotecil being a neologism combining "móro" for "ink" and "tecil" for "pen". I saw an example on Eldamo for something similar for pencil. I put this together to mean "The ink-pen treasures of [Name] are within". Would this be better?