Quenya Translation Double Check (Or just outright fixing, lol)

[The Grayest of Havens]

Hey there! Long story short, I’m looking to see what “Everything sad came untrue” (a take on Sam’s line from RotK) would be in Quenya. I’m WAY new to the language and so what I originally had was,

“Ilya naira ola alenwa”.

But I got that double checked and someone else came up with,

“Lana nairea ma láne nanwa”

They said Quenya required a double negative. But then that was (kindly) challenged by someone else, haha. So now I’m triple checking to see if anyone else has a variation or correction.

Thanks so much!

 

[Elhath Reborn]

It's a bit of a question of which form you prefer. Ólanë is apparently a later past tense attestation than ollë, but using ollë would help distinguish from the verb óla- "to dream".

Ilya nairëa ólanë/ollë alanaitë/alananwa.

Neo-Quenya synonyms for "sad" are *lemba and *luitë. (See eldamo.org)

 

[The Grayest of Havens]

Ah, gotcha. Thanks so much!