Altariello Nainie Mistalondesse

(part of Samwise Gamgee's Letter) 

by Ryszard Derdzinski

 

 

This is a poem in Quenya being a (poor) continuation of "Galadriel's Lament" in the LotR. I present it as a part of a letter from old Samwise Gamgee to King Aragorn.

Ai! telpie pendar nier rossenen,

Yéni únótime ve míri Earon!

Yéni ve linte nahtar avánier

nu halle aldar lisse-coimassava

i malinorni Lóriendesse

nu laurie, yassen lilínir i filici

ar vilya lilta entas lirinen.

 

Man erca órenyo ettuncuva?

 

An sí mapuva Ulmo ciryalma

ve sindi-falma; Varda mentuva

i Elen-estel i en tulya me

Andúne pella, ninqui hrestannar

or menel cúna, menel rácina.

Nan merin minya lóte elanar

an sire cenin Endor teldave.

 

Namárie! Autalme Valinórenna,

Endórello autar! Namárie!

Tengwar transcription (click the image):

 

 

Glossary:

 

pendar '[they] slant down' (found in French ATB)

 

coimassava 'of lembas' (not coimastava - we know that Tolkien rejected
the form masta in the LotR period. I can write that the form is reconstructed after Sindarin bass and Q massanie (see PM)

 

ettunkuva 'will draw out' - reconstructed after Q tukin 'I draw' (Ety
395) with preffix -et 'forth, out' and with nasalization of the stem in
Future (see quat-, quantuva)

mentuva 'will send' - menta- found in VT 41

mettave 'last, lately' after metta 'end'.

 

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