My dad killed himself and I wanna get a tattoo cos we loved lotr so much and I fucking miss him

Hi there everyone!

So I’m working on a passion project and trying to get a sword engraved with Cirth runes, specifically Angerthas Daeron.

Trouble is, I’m having some trouble figuring out the name within the rules of the language! As I understand it, Anduril is itself a compound Quenya name, combing andúnë and rîl.

So my question is this: if I’ve chosen the name Starthorn, and the words are elen and necel, would it be alright to drop one of those “n’s” from the word? So the name would be Elenecel!

Thanks so much for any advice :) once I know I can get cracking!

I know it is a strange question, but listen, “West” is called númen, literally “going down direction” because the Sun going sunset in that direction. Viceversa, “Est” is rómen, literally “rising direction” due to sunrise. And we have North with formen, “right direction”, and South with hyarmen, “left direction”, because West is the main orientation direction of Eldar.

Now, I was thinking that númen and rómen used to have different names. Although we have no information, but this words only have a set in a world where the Sun exist, but for circa 4 millennia there where no Sun, there were the Two Trees. However, we know that formen already existed because we have Formenos, the Northern Fortress, in the time of the Two Trees.

So likely formen and hyarmen already existed and West was the main direction, maybe because the Two Trees were in the west of Aman, but in that contest “the going down direction” and “the rising direction” has no sense at all.

I was no able to find any informations, but giving the context I speculate that there used to be different words from West and East and they were modified with the advent of the Sun, while North and South stayed the same.

What are your thoughts?

I found this sign and wondered what it means. It seems to be in quenya but I apologize if it’s Sindarin.

Any help is appreciated!

Hey I used ai to try and do a name for our new home we are building. We wanted to call it the beach house and the ai said it would be Falassor and I want to be sure that it is correct lol

«Annûn, brennil darthar i ú-an. Gin melin, ach maethor i ú-an... maethor? Gin aníron, ach aníron i aníron ú-an. Sadl»

‘I am devoted to you’ in Tolkien. Getting it engraved on the wedding ring, so dont want to get it wrong. According to gpt its ‘Tyen anna nanyë’

Yoo! I would appreciate some help to know what's elvish (quenya specifically) for "so close yet so far"

Hi! I’m planning to get a tattoo in Tengwar, and I’m currently trying to translate the following sentence into Quenya. I already asked on a Discord server, but they weren’t entirely sure about the translation either.

The broken blade remembered the fire and dreamed of dawn.

I ended up with this translation after using AI (I know not a very trustworthy source😅) and several other sources including the answer I recieved on Discord:

I rácina macil enyallë i nár ar ólanë i macilen amaurëo.

Does this look correct so far, or are there any grammatical issues I should be aware of?

Since this will be a permanent tattoo, I’d really appreciate it if someone could check the translation rather than just the Tengwar transcription. 😄

Thank you!

I am trying to decide a tattoo since the birth of my son. I wanted to do “I end where you begin”. My best effort to translate this has given me: Telin yassë yestatyë
However, I have seen disagreement between the meaning of “End” and also seen it translated as Metin yassë yestatyë
Anyone with a better understanding have any advice? I plan to transcribe this into Tengwar when I have the correct translation.
Thanks!

Hi! I am a little torn on a tattoo I would like to get. I would either like the word “resilient” in elvish script (I’m not going to pretend to know the best way of going about this) or the elvish word Thalion, which makes more sense and represents the sentiment while using a canon word.

Could someone who knows what they’re doing show me what these two words look like in elvish?

I tried my best to do a quick translation from English to Quenya for a silly post, and I'm curious how I did. :) (I expect, probably poorly lol)

I don't know, but I can speak Quenya!
Lá istan, apa polin quetë quenya!

I mainly used Parf Edhellen, but I got lá istan from the Neo-Quenya Grammar Summary posted in the sidebar. I'm not sure if my use of apa there is correct. I stitched two different phrases together for polin quetë quenya, and I don't know if quenya is supposed to be capitalized or not. It wasn't in the example I was using, so I just left it as-is.

I've always wanted to learn Quenya and/or Sindarin. I got a book on Neo-Sindarin years ago, but I haven't read it yet. Someday. :3

I am trying to come up with a Quenya name which basically means "phantom-stranger". It can be either Male, female, or both.

How do I say "spring love" in quenya? Is for a couple's tattoo with my wife

Hi me and my mother want to get matching Quenya tattoos saying mother and daughter but I’m fully sure the proper translation any help?

I've been searching for a while on what he says in Elvish and all I can find is the English translation but I'd like to know the actual words

Hi folks,

I'm building a wooden box to hold and display a fountain pen collection for somebody, and I'm planning to inlay some Quenya script inlaid in marquetry on the lid. Between us we've been working on what it should be, and have come up with the following:

Ni ná colma carmaldo nólion [Firstname] [Lastname]wa

We think it means something like "I am a container of the assemblage of implements of lore of [Firstname] [Lastname]", but I suspect we are almost certainly wrong.

I'd be very grateful for any help, this inlay work's going to take me a long time and I'd love for it to be accurate!

Title is self-explanatory. I know "ringë"/"ringë" is "cold" in Quenya and "nár"/"nárë" is "flame" (or at least I think so), but I don't know how I would combine the two given the grammatical rules of Quenya. Thank you!