I had a request a couple weeks ago to allow Russian translations in Eldamo. Since then, I've been experimenting with options for including non-English translations in general.

Here is what I've come up with so far. I created google spreadsheet titled "eldamo-translations-base"

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Akwt95Yl5ditcnMY1P3GVIdItTW3s86ceh8eA9c_Ig4/edit?usp=sharing

This spreadsheet can be cloned for translations into other languages, for example, eldamo-translations-russian, eldamo-translations-french, etc. The non-English gloss would simply go into the "Translation" column.

Some caveats:

1) There are over 20000 rows in the spreadsheet. Translating all of it would be a huge amount of work. It would probably be better and easier to focus only on a subset of the data. There is a Lang filter, which I've set to n (Noldorin), s (Sindarin), q (Late Quenya) and mq (Middle Quenya). That reduces the number of rows to a more manageable 8000.

2) Eldamo isn't done and will continue to evolve, perhaps indefinitely. New entries will be added and some old entries will change. Any set of translations will slowly go out of date.

3) In light of the above, my plan is to have a fallback mechanism, so that is a given translation is unavailable, either because it is not done or has gone out of data, Eldamo would fallback to English.

If translating Eldamo content is something you are interested in doing, let me know. For know, I am going to follow up with the one volunteer I have so far: Fayanzār from the Discord server.

Alternately, the spreadsheet might be useful for other purposes. If folks like the idea of alternate, spreadsheet-based representations of Eldamo data, I'd be willing to explore other options.