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rastafarianpilgrim — Namarie - JRR Tolkien

Published: 2006-12-27 00:20:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 5789; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 177
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Description I finally figure out the tengwar font.

Translitteration
Ai! laurië lantar lassi súrinen,
inyar únóti nar ve rámar aldaron!
Inyar ve lintë yulmar vánier
mi oromardi lissë-miruvóreva
Andúnë pella, Vardo tellumar
nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni
ómaryo airetári-lírinen.
Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?
An sí Tintallë Varda Oiolossëo
ve fanyar máryat Elentári ortanë
ar ilyë tier undulávë lumbulë
ar sindanóriello caita mornië
i falmalinnar imbë met,
ar hísië untúpa Calaciryo míri oialë.
Sí vanwa ná, Rómello vanwa, Valimar!
Namárië! Nai hiruvalyë Valimar!
Nai elyë hiruva! Namárië!

Translation

Ah! like gold fall the leaves in the wind,
long years numberless as the wings of trees!
The long years have passed like swift draughts
of the sweet mead in lofty halls
beyond the West, beneath the blue vaults of Varda
wherein the stars tremble
in the voice of her song, holy and queenly.
Who now shall refill the cup for me?
For now the Kindler, Varda, the Queen of the stars,
from Mount Everwhite has uplifted her hands like clouds
and all paths are drowned deep in shadow;
and out of a grey country darkness lies
on the foaming waves between us,
and mist covers the jewels of Calacirya for ever.
Now lost, lost to those of the East is Valimar!
Farewell! Maybe thou shalt find Valimar!
Maybe even thou shalt find it! Farewell!

Beneath it reads "!Namárë! !IRR Tolkien!" (Farewell, JRR Tolkien)

Around the cup it read "Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?" (Who now shall refill the cup for me?)
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Comments: 9

kspaulding [2010-09-14 17:01:07 +0000 UTC]

I am homeschooling and teaching my children Tolkien. They saw this over my shoulder and made me stop so they could read it and try the pronunciations. This is Wonderful!

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oblivion-LOTR-Zelda [2010-02-09 04:34:02 +0000 UTC]

I absolutely adore this. It is so beautiful. J.R.R. Tolkien was a mastermind. <3

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Morpheusdream [2009-12-18 18:56:13 +0000 UTC]

Wish I could read tengwar, im still learning how to write my name.

LOVE IT, by the way.

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MattHatter7 [2008-11-21 01:22:00 +0000 UTC]

Not to make you feel bad, but you spelt 'yulma' as 'eulma'.

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rastafarianpilgrim In reply to MattHatter7 [2008-11-21 16:50:10 +0000 UTC]

Ah, well - the double vowel thing never really worked out the way I wanted it to etc. etc, but thanks for the critique

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AreusT [2008-08-05 19:23:25 +0000 UTC]

Its pretty nice, but I see mistakes like "ai" is a diphthong and you can't write it like "a-i"... It must be write like 'a' upon the yanta (lambda-looking tengwa)

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rastafarianpilgrim In reply to AreusT [2008-08-05 21:21:07 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, though I actually realized that a while ago and felt soso stupid >_<

thanks anyway ^^

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AreusT In reply to rastafarianpilgrim [2008-08-06 09:31:30 +0000 UTC]

Its still art, you know... I really adore it

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rastafarianpilgrim In reply to AreusT [2008-08-06 18:31:35 +0000 UTC]

glad somebody does, makes it all worth while

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