Another Brooke Fraser song from the album Albertine.

I love the words of this song and the music is awesome too. I feel rather ignorant for not knowing enough about C.S. Lewis's work to understand why it is called C.S. Lewis Song. I think it must have been inspired by his writings on Christianity, but I don't know if she's used actual quotes or ( Read more... )

Would you think I'm crazy if I said I found doing this translation incredibly relaxing and soothing ... ?!  It's about time I posted some more Quenya - been too long.

These are the words of a song called 'Hymn' from NZ singer Brooke Fraser's album 'Albertine' ~

If to distant lands I scatter
If I sail to farthest seas
Would you find and firm and gather ( Read more... )

Here is a detailed analysis of the translation I posted yesterday.

The one word that appears in red is a construction of my own.

The rest should be fairly straightforward.

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Sië, háya, lelyas
While, far away, he goes
Muina olórenyassë caitas
In my secret dream he lies
Ara nyë, tulis nyenna
Next to me, he comes to me
A cólo ( Read more... )

Here is a song I've just finished translating into Quenya.
It's from Emma Shapplin's album Etterna.

I really like the English words (she sings it in Italian) and thought it would make an interesting exercise to have the three languages -- Italian, English, Quenya -- side by side ( Read more... )

A short Quenya translation I did for Eledhwen's signature at the Middle Earth site:

Quettalmar autar Isil pella, quettalmar autar i lumbulennar, i sírë lirë oialë ...
Our words go beyond the moon, our words go into the shadows, the river sings the endlessness ...

The words are from a song on Enya's Amarantine album ( Read more... )

Beside the falls of Nimrodel,
By water clear and cool,
Her voice as falling silver fell
Into the shining pool.

Ara i lantasíri Nimrodelo,
Ara nén poica ar ringa,
Ómarya ve lantala telpë lantanë
I cálala nendenna.

Where now she wanders none can tell,
In sunlight or in shade;
For lost of yore was Nimrodel
And in the mountains strayed.

Sí yanna ( Read more... )

An Elven-maid there was of old,
A shining star by day:
Her mantle white was hemmed with gold,
Her shoes of silver-grey.

Eldarinwa-vendë engë yáressë,
Elen silma ter aurë:
Collarya ninquë haryanë ríma laureva,
Tal-telmerya sindëo.

A star was bound upon her brows,
A light was on her hair
As sun upon the golden boughs
In Lórien the fair.

Elen ( Read more... )

Maquettallo, morniello, i aurenna órë
nortanes lírala áressë, macil útópala.
Estel ennartanes, ar estelessë metyanë;
or fírië, or caurë, or umbar ortanë
vanwiello, cuilello, alcarenna andavë.

Out of doubt, out of dark, to the day's rising ( Read more... )

Á lirë ar anta yello, ellë lië Minas Tirith,
an tiriselya úmië muntassë,
ar Morannon rácina,
ar Aranelya elennië terë,
ar haryëas i túrë.

Sing and rejoice, ye people of Tower of Guard,
for your watch hath not been in vain,
and the Black Gate is broken,
and your King hath passed through,
and he is victorious.~~(The Eagle's Song) ROTK VI:V The ( Read more... )

Á lirë ar na alassëa, ilyë ellë híni Númeno,
an Aranelya entuluva,
ar maruvas imíca le
ilyë auri cuilelyo.

Sing and be glad, all ye children of the West,
for your King shall come again,
and he shall dwell among you
all the days of your life.~~(The Eagle's Song) ROTK VI:V The Steward and the King (pg 942 ( Read more... )