Help wanted - Ideas for a "Elvish" commission.... - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Encaitare · 09-03-2004, 12:31 PM

Sounds cool... I wish I didn't have so much homework so I could work on my Elvish studies a bit more...

You could check out this site for some samples of poetry: http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/language.htm

Or you could do "The world is changed. I feel it in the water; I feel it in the earth; I smell it in the air," which is a cool quote. I dunno if you want anything water-related like you said the other one was.

This in elvish (at least according to the movie, and I think they got it right) is:

I amar prestar aen.
Han mathon ne nen.
Han mathon ne chae.
A han noston ned gwilith.

(Courtesy of arwen-undomiel.com)

You could also do some lines from either of Galadriel's songs. I personally like "Like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees" and "But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come for me? What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?" The first is, of course, in FotR in Quenya. The second song can be found in elvish here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~xelag/quenya_comp_i_sang.html

More elvish stuff here: http://www.geocities.com/petristikka/elvish/index2.html

EDIT: just realized you'd probably want it in Tengwar; this is a great Tengwar site: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/

Good luck!

09-03-2004, 12:31 PM	#3
Encaitare Bittersweet Symphony Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: On the jolly starship Enterprise Posts: 1,814	Sounds cool... I wish I didn't have so much homework so I could work on my Elvish studies a bit more... You could check out this site for some samples of poetry: http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/language.htm Or you could do "The world is changed. I feel it in the water; I feel it in the earth; I smell it in the air," which is a cool quote. I dunno if you want anything water-related like you said the other one was. This in elvish (at least according to the movie, and I think they got it right) is: I amar prestar aen. Han mathon ne nen. Han mathon ne chae. A han noston ned gwilith. (Courtesy of arwen-undomiel.com) You could also do some lines from either of Galadriel's songs. I personally like "Like gold fall the leaves in the wind, long years numberless as the wings of trees" and "But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come for me? What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a sea?" The first is, of course, in FotR in Quenya. The second song can be found in elvish here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~xelag/quenya_comp_i_sang.html More elvish stuff here: http://www.geocities.com/petristikka/elvish/index2.html EDIT: just realized you'd probably want it in Tengwar; this is a great Tengwar site: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar/ Good luck!