Looking for guidance with Sindarin Chapter names.

[Ufgor]

Hello fellow fellow fans of Tolkien. I am working on a book, for myself and family that is in the realm of Middle-earth. It will not be for sale its just something fun I am doing. It's about a Half-Orc and his family. He married a Half-elf "Sindarin". And found many sources for creating names and places. But I have some chapter titles I am not sure with.

PROLOGUE: THURILLONN' A SECLUDED HAVEN' (thurin "secret" + lond "haven") Thurillonn is the name of their cottage.

CHAPTER 1: A HALF-ORCS TALE (Perorch "half-orc" and narn "tale"

Chapter 2: A Stranger's Arrival (I can't find a word for stranger I could use Hall for hidden, veiled, shadowed and lend for Journey) Not sure on this one.

Chapter 3: A Brother's Betrayal (would it be gweria- + gwanûr ?) since gweria- verb for betray, cheat and gwanûr is brother you combine them to make ( gweriawanúr?)

Chapter 4: The Journey Begins (lend for Journey and we have heria- for being) Same concept I assume (Heria + lend) Herialenn.

Chapter 5: A Fallen Settelement dannen (fallen) canas (town)

Chapter 6: Cýrador 'Land of Renewal.' Pretty sure I got this one.

Any help would be appreciated. Just thought it would add a unique aspect to my titles. I know you all are busy and understand if you are not able to help.

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

Hello, Ufgor! Welcome to TTF! While I am unfortunately not one of those peoples who can help you with creating Sindarin titles, I’m positive there are probably others on here who can. I just wanted to greet you and wish you well with your book! It’s always exciting working on a story and wanting to go the extra mile on it, like having Sindarin chapter titles. Hope you find what you’re looking for!

 

[Ufgor]

Hello, Ufgor! Welcome to TTF! While I am unfortunately not one of those peoples who can help you with creating Sindarin titles, I’m positive there are probably others on here who can. I just wanted to greet you and wish you well with your book! It’s always exciting working on a story and wanting to go the extra mile on it, like having Sindarin chapter titles. Hope you find what you’re looking for!

Thank you Fingon for the kind welcome. I thought it would add the little extra uniqueness to it. Here are the characters. Ufgor his wife, Timbridhil and three daughters Almiel, Mirwen, and Haladanil.

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

Thank you Fingon for the kind welcome. I thought it would add the little extra uniqueness to it. Here are the characters. Ufgor his wife, Timbridhil and three daughters Almiel, Mirwen, and Haladanil.

Indeed it would! Those are some nice pictures of his wife and daughters. Just curious, did you make them yourself? The style seems consistent between the four of them.

 

[Ufgor]

Indeed it would! Those are some nice pictures of his wife and daughters. Just curious, did you make them yourself? The style seems consistent between the four of them.

A mixture of AI Art and Photoshop. I didn't quite like the output so I used photoshop to help bring my ideas to life.

 

[Ufgor]

So, did some research and I think I got these right but would love to hear from others who know way more than me. *Edit changing the chapter names.
Not sure if these are correct but given a shot.
PROLOGUE: 'Di elin rochand: I ‘winig esta Ufgor' [Beneath the Stars of Rohan: The Baby Called Ufgor]
[di, di- prep and pref. beneath, under.] [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [êl, elen pl. elin n.arch.poet. star] [rochand place name. Rohan, Horse-country]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [gwinig n.dim. ‘little baby’] [esta- v. to be called] Ufgor

CHAPTER 1: 'I ûrin laugin i hruist: Dû na var Ufgorion' [The Warm Fires of the Hearth: A Night at Ufgor's Home]
[i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [ruist. noun. Fireplace, hearth], [laug adj. warm], [ûr I n. fire, heat]: [dû n. nightfall, late evening, night, dimness] [na prep. to, towards, at.] [Ufgor’s (character name plural)], [bar (mbar) n. 1. house, home, dwelling. 2. by ext., inhabited land.]

CHAPTER 2: Chapter 2: 'I gova gwaewath: I lammath eichia' [The Gathering Storm: The Echoes of Change]
[i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [cova- verb. intransitive verb. to meet, to come together, gather, assemble.] [gwaew noun. storm, wind (that can be seen moving objects).]: [lamma- v. to echo.] or [lamath noun. collective. of lam I, echoing voices.] [eichia- verb. to change.]

Chapter 3: 'Oroth Durubgor: Covad i Orchoth' [Rage of Durubgor: The Orcs Assemble]
[Durubgor name.] [[oroth n. rage, anger.]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection]: [i article. The] [orchoth n. class pl. of orch, the Orcs (as a race)] cova- v.intr. to meet, to come together, gather, assemble.

Chapter 4: Sinnarn Iarwath: I venn na Enedwaith [Iarwath's Tale: The Road to Enedwaith]
Iarwath [female possessive], [sinnarn n. novel (new) tale.]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [menn n. way, road.] [na prep. To] Enedwaith

 

[Gilruin]

Sorry for the late reply.

A SECLUDED HAVEN

Thurillon(n) should work as a compound, but if you want it to say “a secluded haven”, i. e. the normal phrase, then it is lond thurin.

CHAPTER 1: A HALF-ORCS TALE (Perorch "half-orc" and narn "tale"

For the genitive “of”, you can just put the words next to each other without mutation Narn Perorch “Tale of a Half-orc”.

Chapter 2: A Stranger's Arrival (I can't find a word for stranger I could use Hall for hidden, veiled, shadowed and lend for Journey) Not sure on this one.

Edlon or Othol come to mind. Which dictionary are you using? As a complete phrase Toled Eglon/Toled Othol.

Chapter 3: A Brother's Betrayal (would it be gweria- + gwanûr ?) since gweria- verb for betray, cheat and gwanûr is brother you combine them to make ( gweriawanúr?)

Here you want a verbal noun: One can form gweriad “betrayal” from gweria- just like we did with toled “arrival” from tol- above. → Gweriad Gwanûr.

Chapter 4: The Journey Begins (lend for Journey and we have heria- for being) Same concept I assume (Heria + lend) Herialenn.

This would be i·lend heria. “The Journy Begins” is a perfectly normal sentence in both Sindarin and English, no need to smash words together.

Chapter 5: A Fallen Settelement dannen (fallen) canas (town)

Caras dhannen, here we need soft mutation for an adjective following a noun.

Chapter 6: Cýrador 'Land of Renewal.' Pretty sure I got this one.

Unfortunately not: [n]dôr “land” mutates to -nnor after vowels and cýra- is a verb “to renew”, not the noun “renewal”. I would suggest Dor Cýrad/Dor-e-Gýrad.

PROLOGUE: 'Di elin rochand: I ‘winig esta Ufgor' [Beneath the Stars of Rohan: The Baby Called Ufgor]
[di, di- prep and pref. beneath, under.] [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [êl, elen pl. elin n.arch.poet. star] [rochand place name. Rohan, Horse-country]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [gwinig n.dim. ‘little baby’] [esta- v. to be called] Ufgor

That looks good, just a couple of points:

• Rochand is archaic, normally the -nd would reduce to -nn and then to -n yielding Rochan, cp. annond > annon “hill”.
• If you want to make the article more clear, I’d suggest nuin elin. Nuin is a contraction of nu “under” + in “article” from Dagor-nuin-Giliath “Battle under the Stars”.
• esta- is a complicated word, but it cannot really mean “be called” on its own. In i sennui Panthael estathar aen “whom they rather should call Fullwise”, esta- is in the third person plural, so the people who do the calling are the subject, not the person who is called. Based on this I’d suggest i·‘winig i estar Ulfgor “The baby whom they call Ulfgor”.

CHAPTER 1: 'I ûrin laugin i hruist: Dû na var Ufgorion' [The Warm Fires of the Hearth: A Night at Ufgor's Home]
[i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [ruist. noun. Fireplace, hearth], [laug adj. warm], [ûr I n. fire, heat]: [dû n. nightfall, late evening, night, dimness] [na prep. to, towards, at.] [Ufgor’s (character name plural)], [bar (mbar) n. 1. house, home, dwelling. 2. by ext., inhabited land.]

• The fires would be in all likelyhood in·uir with i-mutation, rather than with -in, which is relatively rare. Also, don’t forget that in is the plural version of i. For “the warm fires” I would then say in·uir loeg, again with i-mutation from laug.
• I am not sure why you mutate ruist to hruist here, it could be either just the normal article (in·uir loeg i·ruist) or the preposition en (in·uir loeg edh·ruist) here imo.
• For “A night in the house of Ulfgorn”, I would say Dû vi Mar Ulfgor or Dû mi Mar Ulfgor. Na at its core means “towards” and can be “at” in the sense of “shoot at a target”, but you need a base meaning of “in”, which is mi, vi. Translating prepositions is always hard, because different languages group things differently. [m]Bâr is a special case mutation, mb → m instead of regular b → v. The Sindarin genitive with -ion was abandoned by Tolkien and -ion would be the plural form anyway, so I wouldn’t use it here.

CHAPTER 2: Chapter 2: 'I gova gwaewath: I lammath eichia' [The Gathering Storm: The Echoes of Change]
[i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [cova- verb. intransitive verb. to meet, to come together, gather, assemble.] [gwaew noun. storm, wind (that can be seen moving objects).]: [lamma- v. to echo.] or [lamath noun. collective. of lam I, echoing voices.] [eichia- verb. to change.]

Here you want a participle “gathering”, so i·waew govol or i·waew chostol. Not sure where you got gwaew_ath_ from. For “change” we can derive gwist simply enough from WIS- “change”, that we don’t need to adapt words from Gnomish here. With that we’d get i·lammath gwist.

Chapter 3: 'Oroth Durubgor: Covad i Orchoth' [Rage of Durubgor: The Orcs Assemble]
[Durubgor name.] [[oroth n. rage, anger.]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection]: [i article. The] [orchoth n. class pl. of orch, the Orcs (as a race)] cova- v.intr. to meet, to come together, gather, assemble.

Covad in·orchoth means “The Assembly of the Orcs”, for “The Orcs Assemble” one could say In·orchoth covar.

Chapter 4: Sinnarn Iarwath: I venn na Enedwaith [Iarwath's Tale: The Road to Enedwaith]
Iarwath [female possessive], [sinnarn n. novel (new) tale.]: [i article. The] and [in article. plural inflection], [menn n. way, road.] [na prep. To] Enedwaith

That works, I believe.

 

[Ent]