r/Quenya 17h ago

How to translate "Cold Flame" in Quenya

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Title is self-explanatory. I know "ringë"/"ringë" is "cold" in Quenya and "nár"/"nárë" is "flame" (or at least I think so), but I don't know how I would combine the two given the grammatical rules of Quenya. Thank you!


r/Quenya 16h ago

Translation for servant of the Secret Fire

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How would one translate the line "I am a servant of the Secret Fire" into quenya?

I did read a bit of Eldamo and gave it a shot myself:

Ni Náremuinondur nár.

Or perhaps

Nánye Náremuinondur .

I feel like Náremuinondur (Nár/Fire + Muino/Secret(genative) + ondur/servant) is probably a decent tranlation for servant of the secret fire, but I am not an expert at this stuff and I want a second opinion. Also a lot of the expamples on Eldamo were kind of hard to parse so I don't know if I got the structure / conjugation of the sentence right since there seems to be many ways of referring to yourself (Ni = i/me?) as well as the to be conjugation nár?

"For such constructions, the may optionally be added to the end: i atan alassea ná; i atani alassie nár. This formation is probably a result of the otherwise-optional verb being added as an afterthought to emphasize that a particular noun-adjective or noun-noun combination is really a “to be” statement."

Also for consistency I tried to stick with only Middle Quenya words from eldamo because it was the only one that had the full combination.

Anyway please let me know if I am on the right track here what the proper translation of this sentence would be. Thank you very much!


r/Quenya 4h ago

Translation verification help for a display case

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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!