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How to say "You are the reason" in Sindarin with Tengwar script?

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I would suggest le i·gaeth/ci i·gaeth, the first using formal ‘you’, the second familiar ‘you’. This distinction roughly corresponds to whether you’d choose to refer to someone by their first or last name in English.
There is no good word for ‘cause, reason’ in Sindarin. The word I used, caeth/i·gaeth, is an adaption from Gnomish, a conceptual predecessor of Sindarin in Tolkien’s life, which has √KAHA > caith “cause, reason, motive”. There is a later root √KYAR, but unfortunately this doesn’t yield distinctive results in Sindarin.
I would suggest le i·gaeth/ci i·gaeth, the first using formal ‘you’, the second familiar ‘you’. This distinction roughly corresponds to whether you’d choose to refer to someone by their first or last name in English.
There is no good word for ‘cause, reason’ in Sindarin. The word I used, caeth/i·gaeth, is an adaption from Gnomish, a conceptual predecessor of Sindarin in Tolkien’s life, which has √KAHA > caith “cause, reason, motive”. There is a later root √KYAR, but unfortunately this doesn’t yield distinctive results in Sindarin.
 
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