Eñget i•Aldu mi Númen: calaitë silíteye
Fíriet oialë né, euva calanta mi hón.
[There were two Trees in the West: one shone golden and second shone silver;
Both perished Ages ago, light their dwells only in heart.]
+#Original +#Quenya +#FixedForm +#Quantitative +#Accentual
Leonard W. Aug 18, 2015 (22:14)
Rick Spell Aug 18, 2015 (22:45)
Tamas Ferencz Aug 19, 2015 (01:43)
Александр Запрягаев Aug 19, 2015 (08:37)
+Leonard W. For verse, for verse! I'm not really knowledgable in the matter of quantitative hexameters, (we have, as in English, 'revised' accentual ones only, like the one I did in the translation below), so had to study the structure extensively. Finally, I took no compromises and made an elegiac which is what it it no matter treated accentually or quantitatively!
Tamas Ferencz Aug 19, 2015 (08:57)
thanks for the explanation! But gálë is improbable in Quenya (no initial g) - did you mean cálar? cálat?
Александр Запрягаев Aug 19, 2015 (08:58)