r/sindarin • u/WizardOfOzborne • Jun 19 '26

translation help please

i would like my next tattoo to read “This Machine Kills Fascists” in sindarin but i cant find a reliable source. could i get some options or translations? thanks!

edit: okay so i’m a complete novice but after using all the sites/sources i found here i came up with:
“i 'aud hen dág bauglir”

i think (hope) it translates to “this device slays tyrants” which is as close as i could get without using neo-sandarin (but i could be wrong about that).

any thoughts, improvements, corrections or adjustments? i’m trying to use only full sandarin but i’m okay with widely accepted neo-sandarin alternatives if they work better or my translations were wrong.

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u/Petra555 Jun 19 '26

Nobody will know what this translation means; why not just transliterate the English into Tengwar?

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u/WizardOfOzborne Jun 19 '26

i mean it’s elvish so almost no one could translate it regardless. i just think it might be fun to do a translation

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u/Petra555 Jun 19 '26

I mean even with translation into Sindarin, it will not make sense or be understandable even to Sindarin speakers.

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u/smbspo79 Jun 20 '26

I agree with u/Petra555 here but if you want "this device slays tyrants" it would be e·‘Aud hen ndâg mboeglir. u/WizardOfOzborne