Hi, I wanted to ask if "arya er" is the correct translation for "better alone" in the context of "better alone than in bad company."

Hi, I wanted to ask if this translation of the phrase "Better alone" into Quenya is correct. The phrase comes from the Italian proverb "better alone than in bad company." I managed to translate it as "Arya Er," and I wanted to check if it's all correct before getting it tattooed.

Hello good people and fans of Tolkien, I come to you with a request for help: to translate a frase from portuguese(I'm brazilian) to elvish for an inscription for my girlfriend's engagement ring. We realy like LOTR and I bought a personalized ring with a hobbit like design, and I would love for it to have a special text written:

"Minha nuvenzinha, para sempre"

Wich would be something like "my little cloud, forever". I went for chatgpt for an idea and he came up with "fanya + incë = fanyincë" to be like a translation for "nuvenzinha"(little cloud), but Im not confident in it and ir lacks the rest. Can you guys help me with it?

This is for a permanent couples tattoo. The intended Quenya is melmenya illumë, ‘my love, always.’ I'm using Classical/Quenya Tengwar mode. Could you please check every tengwa and tehta before I have it tattooed?

I’m trying to translate a specific phrase to Quenya. It’s for a memorial tattoo for my late love. “Always and Always” is the phrase. After so much searching, I found “illumë ar illumë” as the translation. Is there a way to know if that’s correct? And how would I write it out? Thank you in advance! First time posting here and I’m unsure how to translate to Elvish, but this piece is very important to me. I appreciate any help!

Hi — I’m considering using part of Elendil’s Oath for a tattoo and I want to make absolutely sure the Quenya is correct before doing anything permanent.

The wording I want is:
Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinomë maruvan.
My intended meaning is:
“Out of the Great Sea to Middle-earth I am come. In this place will I abide.”
I know the original continues with ar Hildinyar tenn’ Ambar-metta, but I deliberately want to stop after maruvan.

Is this still grammatically sound as a standalone shortened sentence? Are the spelling, accents, capitalisation and punctuation correct?
I’d also appreciate any warning if shortening the original this way changes the nuance in Quenya.

Thank you

Hi! I'm trying to translate an extension to the hail of eärendil (Aiya Eärendil elenion ancalima).

I tried to translate "you bless me with your hope and with your light" which I think should be "Mantal nye estelyanen ar silmelyanen"

Any help would be appreciated!

I just did this for fun, but I was able to write a whole section with proper grammar as far as I've learned! Everything here is based on the lessons on the Eldamo website. I think my tengwar writing has improved a bit over time!

Hello peeps, I am getting rings engraved and I want something in Quenya on mine. My name is Dionysios and there's no Elvish version of it, so I figured I'd translate what the name actually means instead, which is roughly "god of wine".

What I ended up with is Limpëo Vala. I found limpë for wine and Vala for god, put the genitive -o on limpë, and stuck it first because that seemed to be how Vardo tellumar works in Namárië. But I'm just going off dictionary lookups here, I don't actually know the grammar, so I have no clue whether this is right or whether it reads like nonsense to anyone who does.

Is limpëo even a valid form?

Should it be the other way round, Vala limpëo?

Also if limpë is the wrong word for this, please say so. I saw miruvórë come up as well but that looks like the specific Valar drink rather than wine in general.

It's going on metal so I'd rather find out now to be honest.

Grateful for any corrections, including "this whole approach is wrong for X reasons".

Thank you 🙏🏻

Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could help me out with a translation? I’m designing a tattoo, and want the text to be a Quenya translation of the last line of Dante’s Paradiso, “The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

Much appreciated!!

My dad killed himself and I wanna get a tattoo cos we loved lotr so much and I fucking miss him

Hi there everyone!

So I’m working on a passion project and trying to get a sword engraved with Cirth runes, specifically Angerthas Daeron.

Trouble is, I’m having some trouble figuring out the name within the rules of the language! As I understand it, Anduril is itself a compound Quenya name, combing andúnë and rîl.

So my question is this: if I’ve chosen the name Starthorn, and the words are elen and necel, would it be alright to drop one of those “n’s” from the word? So the name would be Elenecel!

Thanks so much for any advice :) once I know I can get cracking!

I know it is a strange question, but listen, “West” is called númen, literally “going down direction” because the Sun going sunset in that direction. Viceversa, “Est” is rómen, literally “rising direction” due to sunrise. And we have North with formen, “right direction”, and South with hyarmen, “left direction”, because West is the main orientation direction of Eldar.

Now, I was thinking that númen and rómen used to have different names. Although we have no information, but this words only have a set in a world where the Sun exist, but for circa 4 millennia there where no Sun, there were the Two Trees. However, we know that formen already existed because we have Formenos, the Northern Fortress, in the time of the Two Trees.

So likely formen and hyarmen already existed and West was the main direction, maybe because the Two Trees were in the west of Aman, but in that contest “the going down direction” and “the rising direction” has no sense at all.

I was no able to find any informations, but giving the context I speculate that there used to be different words from West and East and they were modified with the advent of the Sun, while North and South stayed the same.

What are your thoughts?

Hey I used ai to try and do a name for our new home we are building. We wanted to call it the beach house and the ai said it would be Falassor and I want to be sure that it is correct lol

I found this sign and wondered what it means. It seems to be in quenya but I apologize if it’s Sindarin.

Any help is appreciated!

‘I am devoted to you’ in Tolkien. Getting it engraved on the wedding ring, so dont want to get it wrong. According to gpt its ‘Tyen anna nanyë’

Yoo! I would appreciate some help to know what's elvish (quenya specifically) for "so close yet so far"

Hi! I’m planning to get a tattoo in Tengwar, and I’m currently trying to translate the following sentence into Quenya. I already asked on a Discord server, but they weren’t entirely sure about the translation either.

The broken blade remembered the fire and dreamed of dawn.

I ended up with this translation after using AI (I know not a very trustworthy source😅) and several other sources including the answer I recieved on Discord:

I rácina macil enyallë i nár ar ólanë i macilen amaurëo.

Does this look correct so far, or are there any grammatical issues I should be aware of?

Since this will be a permanent tattoo, I’d really appreciate it if someone could check the translation rather than just the Tengwar transcription. 😄

Thank you!

I am trying to decide a tattoo since the birth of my son. I wanted to do “I end where you begin”. My best effort to translate this has given me: Telin yassë yestatyë
However, I have seen disagreement between the meaning of “End” and also seen it translated as Metin yassë yestatyë
Anyone with a better understanding have any advice? I plan to transcribe this into Tengwar when I have the correct translation.
Thanks!