I need help with a “TRANSLATION”, please!

[NekoYashi]

Mae govannen everyone,

I’m a new member and I’m very happy to have joined. I hope someone can help me with this. I’ve been trying to translate the phrase “Feel my Heart” in Quenya and transcribing it in Tengwar Annatar Italics, for a possible VERY FIRST tattoo ever.

I’ve been doing some research online through words and elvish dictionary sites and I think I might have found something but I’m not sure.

All I came up with was this: “Órenya (my heart) felmë (emotion)” or “Felmë órenya” or “Mathon (feel/perceive) órenya” or “Óre nîn mathon” or I don’t know. I’m not even sure of the grammar and phrase structure either. I want to make sure to get the right translation/grammar structure before I commit it to a tattoo, which will be forever. I’m really hoping for more.

Namárië…

 

[Elaran]

I am a month late to reply but if you are still interested: There are quite a few issues to address here.

Firstly, the verb "matha-" is not Quenya but "Draft Sindarin" (not quite compatible with actual Sindarin and should not be used with Quenya because it is not Quenya), while nîn is simply Sindarin and using it in a Quenya sentence would be like switching to German halfway through an English sentence.

The Quenya word felmë "emotion" is a noun, not a verb, the verb would be *fel- "to feel (emotions)", but it may not be the right choice here, rather a verb that means "sense, become aware" would work better. The root √NUS "(to) sense; wisdom (& be wise, aware?); (to) smell" can work with its older connotations of perception, with a derivative like *nusta- "to notice, perceive, sense, feel; to smell".

The Quenya word órë is not quite "heart" in the English sense, it is not the metaphorical centre of feelings and emotions. It is related to the verbal senses like "to warn, urge, counsel", so in a way it is more akin to "conscience" in English. So it should not be used, but a more fitting alternative would be a matter of debate. Tolkien used Q. hón as "physical heart" for quite a while, but later on he seems to have given the word the metaphorical senses of English as well, so this could be used. The root form of this before a suffix is "hóm-", and with the suffix for "my = -(i)nya" it would be hóminya "my heart".

So I would offer:

á nusta hóminya "feel my heart"

Click here for the Tengwar Transcription with the "Annatar Italic" font.