Riddle of the strider 🧝elvish transcription

[marlow the merciful]

Hi,
I was just wondering if the tengwar is correct in the attached picture, for the riddle of the strider. I was also wondering if I could just take the second verse, and it would still make linguistic sense. Thankyou.

 

[Elaran]

There isn't much linguistics about which to be worried here. As you may be aware, Tengwar is just the Elvish script, not a language. And your attached image has "English+Tengwar" rather than "Quenya/Sindarin(/Elvish-languages)+Tengwar". So the second part simply reads what the original English poem says, "From the ashes..." etc.

 

[marlow the merciful]

There isn't much linguistics about which to be worried here. As you may be aware, Tengwar is just the Elvish script, not a language. And your attached image has "English+Tengwar" rather than "Quenya/Sindarin(/Elvish-languages)+Tengwar". So the second part simply reads what the original English poem says, "From the ashes..." etc.

So if I just took the second verse, directly as is It would be correct? In elvish? I don’t really understand your reply.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

In other words, the verse is a transliteration,using Tengwar characters, of English words, not a translation.It's as if you wrote the same verses using Cyrillic script -- it would still be English, not a translation into Russian language.

 

[marlow the merciful]

In other words, the verse is a transliteration,using Tengwar characters, of English words, not a translation.It's as if you wrote the same verses using Cyrillic script -- it would still be English, not a translation into Russian language.

Ah, I was looking for a translation into sindarin.

In other words, the verse is a transliteration,using Tengwar characters, of English words, not a translation.It's as if you wrote the same verses using Cyrillic script -- it would still be English, not a translation into Russian language.

Could you provide me with a proper elvish + Tengwar translation of the second verse? I’d really like to make a print of it

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'm afraid that's way above my pay grade. 😀

 

[Elaran]

@marlow the merciful I can share my Sindarin translation and its Tengwar transcription.

Ill i mall law thilia,
Law ill idh reniar gwenwin;
Iaur i bell law firatha,
Law na chell thynd nuir raethennin.

Od i lith naur echuidathar,
Calad od in gwaith tuiatha;
Megil i rangen cýrathar,
Alrin aran adolatha.

Click here for the Tengwar transcription.