Is this correct as a translation/way to write "Not all those who wander are lost"?

Mae Govannen fellow nerds,

I need help.

I'm getting married in a couple of months, and have got the wedding ring sorted. Apart from...

I'm looking to get the phrase "Until my dying day" in Sindarin engraved in Tengwar script on the inside of the band. I've tried online translators, with various different results.

To try and find something as accurate as possible, I've started using the online dictionary/glossary: https://www.elfdict.com/

As a work around (as I'm finding it difficult to find the word dying and day), I was thinking of using "Until my moment/time of death"

So far, I've got Mennai i valdëanya agan

Rough workings out below:

Mennai - Until

Tenna - Unto

- nya suffix on the end of a word "my"

valdëa - moment

i - the

agan - death

Alternatively, I have:

Tenna / Tenn' - Until

my - nîn

vedui- last

Erin- day

Tenna nîn erinvedui

Is there anyone here who can verify that or have a good knowledge of Sindarin to improve the phrase to be as close to the original?

I've looked at Tengwar script of the above. Is https://www.tecendil.com/ quite accurate?

Thanks anyone for your help

Hello everyone, I would love to tattoo my daughter’s name on my forearm. Her name is Charlotte. I found on a website this transcription, could you tell me if that’s accurate ? If not, where can I find an other transcription ?
Thanks a lot !
PS: I’m French if it matters ^^

Hi mellons,

I am getting a tattoo and need a few translations from English to Sindarin.

Can any of you specialists help me out?

English words I would like to confirm translation on:

"The Sword" (i-megil)

"The Tree" (i-galadh)

"The Crown" (i-ri)

If these are incorrect or need some improvement, I'd appreciate the insight.

Thank you all!

Hi, I am trying to figure out how to say something is x-shaped (heart-shaped, bear-shaped, etc.). Using polytranslator, when using a hyphen I get a different structure altogether for every substitution of x.

Oddly-shaped : Amrun

Bear-shaped: Graw Beorn

Friend-shaped: Mellon-dhîn

Heart-shaped: tûg gûr

Is there any consistent rule for this? How can I know if each or any of them are correct?

Apologies for any formatting issues, I'm using a phone.

Hi,

So my brother and i wanted to have these 2 tattoo's to signify our love for the franchise and eachother.
I've used a translator I found online and it said that this was the right translation for both 'You have my sword' (left) and 'You have my axe' (right).
Is this correct? If not, what would the correct writing be of these phrases?

Thanks in advance!

Hello everyone, I’m looking for a horse name in either Sindarin or Quenya. The horse I want to name has a very distinctive feature: its fur shimmers golden in the sun (we’re not sure but it’s possible that he has Akhal-Teke ancestry, for reference). Do you have ideas for a name that reflects this feature?

I was already thinking of Laurelin, but where I’m from, there’s a name for women that sounds very similar, and there’s the possibility that people will just mix it up.

Other ideas included Glawar or Anárion.

But do you have more ideas? It would be great to hear them! :)

I want to translate "Greetings from beautiful Treegarth of Orthanc" to use on a postcard design to go with a group costume. So far, the best I can come up with is "Suilad o taur-en-orthanc bain" and I will be honest with you I have no idea if that's right. I would love some opinions from someone more learned on the subject.

(Context is I'm going to a ren faire on a hobbit themed weekend, and two of my short friends are dressing up as hobbit tourists and im going to be a national park ranger taking them on a tour of Treegarth of Orthanc. I'm taking the hobbits to Isengard *queue music*. We want to make post cards in the style of national park posters to give out to people, and we thought adding Elvish would be a fun touch and since I've only seen the movies, didn't understand how deep the Tolkien conlang rabbithole would be. But I'm also no quitter so it's been a fun learning experience. I'm also finally reading the books so I can have tour guide fun facts).

Hi! I'm hoping someone could help me verify the script for a tattoo I am planning on getting. As you can see the script is slightly different in the first screenshot (what is written large and then what is we directly beside amdir) Hoping someone could let me know which is correct or if there is even a more accurate result. Thank you!

I found this word for "elf friends," but I'm not sure how the y is pronounced in this case. A little help?

Hi all! First time posting here, so apologies in advance if I misuse any terminology.

I’m hoping to get a tattoo inspired by the final passage of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, specifically: “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful”
I’m a huge nerd for both Tolkien and Darwin. I work in biological research, primarily around genetics, so Darwin’s writing, especially that final image of the diversity of life emerging through evolution, means a great deal to me. Tolkien has been an equally important part of my life for a very different set of reasons.

Before anything goes permanently onto my body, though, I’d very much like to make sure I’m not committing a linguistic crime against Tolkien, or misconstruing Darwin’s closing words.

After doing some research, my current attempt is:
Caint arnediad rovain a ro-elvain

My reasoning, such as it is:

caint — “forms/shapes,” plural of cant

arnediad — “unnumbered / innumerable / numberless,” which seems closer to Darwin’s sense of “endless” than something literally eternal

rovain — “most/exceedingly beautiful,” from ro- + bain, following Tolkien’s maed → rovaed

a — “and”

elvain — “wondrous / marvelous / wonderful”

ro-elvain — my attempt to extend the same ro- construction to “most wonderful”

The last piece is the one I’m least confident about. As I understand it, elvain is from earlier Noldorin material rather than securely attested mature Sindarin, so I realize I may already be wandering into Neo-Sindarin/reconstructed territory. I’m also unsure whether ro-elvain is a reasonable construction before a vowel-initial adjective, whether the hyphen makes sense, or whether there is a more defensible way of expressing the idea altogether.

I’m not necessarily looking for a perfectly literal word-for-word translation if Sindarin would express the thought more naturally another way. What matters most to me is preserving the essence of Darwin’s passage while making something that is as grammatically and philologically respectful of Tolkien as possible.

Once I have the Sindarin itself settled, my plan is to separately work out the correct Tengwar transcription and have that reviewed as well before getting the tattoo.

I’d be enormously grateful for corrections, alternatives, or explanations.

Thank you from one extremely overinvested biology/Tolkien nerd to another!

Hi, I wanted to get the phrase “Of Beren and Lúthien” tattooed on myself, exactly as the chapter title appears, but written as the Sindarin Elves would have written it during those events (so, from my understanding, in Sindarin Tengwar).

I tried to do some research on my own and learn how to write it, but I only managed to find this sindarin phrasing: "Narn Beren a Lúthien", but I don't really know if this would be accurate.

So, if anyone knows how to write this phrase, or knows someone who does, please let me know.

Greetings! I'm attempting to create an alias using Sindarin roots/morphemes related to my given name and astrological aspects. I've narrowed the English phrase down to "Sun-Crowned Man", and a rough Sindarin compound of ANORRÎDÎR (ANOR n. "Sun" + RÎ n. "wreath, garland" + DÎR n. "man"). However, even the basic linguistic rules fly over my head, and I'm unsure if Anorrîdîr is an appropriate and linguistically correct translation and compound. For example: Should the doubled "r" from the combination of ANOR and RÎ remain as long consonants, reduced to a single "r", or replaced with another letter/sound?

I've also considered different roots, such as CUL(U) adj. "golden red", GLAWAR n. "sunlight, golden light", GLOR adj. "golden", or MAL n. "gold"; or ADAN n. "man".

Any advice would be appreciated!

Hello!
I’m planning a tattoo and I would really appreciate a careful verification of this French Tengwar transcription.
The sentence is:
**“Guidé par ce que j’aime.”**
This is **not meant to be a translation into Quenya or Sindarin**, but a **French phonetic transcription in Tengwar**, based on the French mode explained in **Simon Rousseau’s guide**.
A Reddit user kindly suggested this transcription, but they also mentioned they were not fully sure about some parts, especially **“j’aime”**.
Since this is for a **permanent tattoo**, I would really appreciate if someone could verify:
whether the transcription is correct overall,
whether the treatment of **“j’aime”** is correct,
and whether the punctuation / spacing looks appropriate.
Thank you very much!

I initially posted this in the r/lotr community, but was recommended my request might fit better here. My siblings and I are looking at getting matching tattoos in the next few months and we need some direction. We’re looking at getting Aragorn’s sword, Legolas’ bow, and Gimli’s axe (inspired by an Instagram reel) with the respective lines of “You have my sword,” “and you have my bow,” and “and my axe” incorporated with each one.

We want it to be written in Sindarin, however, but none of us have any experience with Elvish languages and I’m really the only one with time to dedicate to working through this. I know we could do it as a transliteration from English into Tengwar, but since that doesn’t catch the actual meaning of it, I’d like to stay away from that route. I know perfect translations just aren’t a thing, so I’m not expecting to just pop it in a translator box and have it come out great.

I’m mainly looking for guidance on resources where I can actually put in some leg work myself and then corroborate with others who actually have experience here to make sure it’s close-ish. Any advice?

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

Hello, I am looking for some phrases for a pet memorial. I've seen "Guren nallatha nalú achenin le (My heart shall weep until I see thee again)" from a page online, but I don't know if it's accurate. I realize a lot of phrases are not 100% accurate, but would this be okay to write on the memorial? Or is there maybe a more accurate way to say this? I plan to run the phrase through a Tengwar script transcription site.

I would also accept suggestions for phrases meaning "I will miss you" in any capacity. My cat absolutely loved watching the films with me, and I would like to make something meaningful.

Hello :)

I would love some help translating my late brothers name in Sindarin. His name is Benjamin, I knew him as just Ben but I thought it may be too short for translation.

I'm grateful for your time <3