Thread: translation
View Single Post
Old 08-02-2008, 08:31 AM   #2
Galin
Ghost Prince of Cardolan
 
Join Date: May 2007
Posts: 1,036
Galin is a guest at the Prancing Pony.Galin is a guest at the Prancing Pony.
There is a noun (in the late 1930s text Etymologies) maranwe 'destiny', and using tielyanna 'upon your path' from Unfinished Tales, we might get Neo-Quenya *maranwelya 'your destiny'.

As for 'choose', all I can think of at the moment is essecilme 'Name-choosing', but one would have to guess at a verb in the imperative here, as it seems to me at least, that 'choose your destiny' should be rendered in the imperative.

Unless someone has another option for 'choose', or wants to extrapolate using essecilme, it would seem easier to write this in English using an Elvish writing system. If you want help with any transcription into the tengwar I can only describe them however, referencing the chart in Return of the King. I don't mind doing that but some who are less familiar with the tengwar names or shapes of the tehtar seem to find this confusing.

For Quenya versus Neo-Quenya see Elvish as She Is Spoke, here:

http://www.elvish.org/articles/

Last edited by Galin; 08-05-2008 at 06:02 AM.
Galin is offline   Reply With Quote