+Paul Strack This is the case when an added translation actually obscures the meaning. Of course, I'm just annoyed by a common misuse and mistranslation, so try to imply that Eruman as a philosophical concept does not equal Menel, that is, the astronomical celestial sphere.
Paul Strack May 17, 2015 (18:27)
Q. Eruman is the word Tolkien used for Heaven. Its Sindarin equivalent would be *Eruvan. So it ought to be:
Menel ú-na Eruvan, Iladar athar Ardhon
[The heavens are not Heaven, Allfather dwells beyond the world]
Ekin Gören May 17, 2015 (18:28)
Paul Strack May 17, 2015 (18:31)
Oh, yes, that would work. I would still write it this way:
Eruvan ú-na menel, Iladar athar Ardhon
[Heaven is not the heavens, Allfather dwells beyond the world]
Александр Запрягаев May 17, 2015 (19:27)
Paul Strack May 17, 2015 (20:10)