For any readers who like this sort of thing, here is the Lord's Prayer in Quenya. Tolkien composed this in the 1950s:
Átaremma i ëa han ëa, na aire esselya, aranielya na tuluva, na care indómelya cemende tambe Erumande. Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma, ar ámen apsene úcaremmar sív' emme apsenet tien i úcarer emmen. Álame tulya úsahtienna mal áme etelehta ulcullo.
Násie.
Friday 2 October 2009
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Well I'll be. Seems to me I have seen this before. Wasn't this published in his Letters? (The Letters doesn't have an index, so that makes it a frustrating volume to try to find stuff in -- took me forever to find the famous quote on the Eucharist.)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful language, Quenya.
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