Quenta
Silmarillion Fragment: 'Of
the Return of the Noldor'
Translated by Pavel Iosad
This
is a Sindarin translation of the beginning of the Of the Return of the
Noldor (O Hatholad in-Gelydh) chapter in The Silmarillion (p. 119).
O Hatholad1
in-Gelydh
Trenarenner2
sa tollar Feanor ar ionnath dîn na Ennorath minui3
o Gódhil, ar thollar sain na ‘waith Lammoth, erin edhebaid4
hûb Drengist. Ar ned i-lû5
penio tail in-Gelydh
erin i-falas, lastanner hýl hîn ned in emyn, ar phathrant caun meneg lamath
veleg chebaid i-Forod bain, ar tholl a sýl i-aear rû ustad6
i-chair ne Losgar, ar anwar pathrant aeben7
i lastant rû hen.
Cennar i-laich ustad hen
Fingolfin i awarthant Feanor aen8
ned Araman, ar iand9
in Yrch ar i-thirn Morgoth. Ú-drenarenner o nuith gûr Morgoth ned i-lû
istad dîn sa tunc Feanor, coth haerwain dîn, ‘weth od Annûn. Ú-‘ostant
Morgoth Feanor, ú-istant e valan maigol in-Gelydh; ar túranner sa ethell
annaethad hain na ‘aear. Nuin giliath ring, ned i-lû ú-erio Ithil, pant
i-‘weth Feanor am chûb daen Drengist i minc10
in emyn Lómin, ar sí11
tredoll ed in-felais na-ndor12
dhaer Hithlum, ar thollar ned i-lû na-nen daen Mithrim, ar ned i-chabad forod
e-nen agorer estolad ned i-ndor i estanner aen Mithrim. Dan toll i-‘weth
Morgoth i prestanner rû Lammoth ar gail ustad Losgar aen trîn chirith Ered
Wethrin ar agorer anollad vragol an Feanor ned i-lû ú-echaded ar ú-garad
lest i-estolad; ar ennas ne thailf thind Mithrim maethanner ndagor dadui uith
Beleriand. Dagor-nuin-Giliath estanner aen, ú-eriant Ithil ned i-lû, ar linnar laer oh
i-ndagor.
1
atholad is constructed from at + tol >
*attol- > *athol- (cf. ephel
<*et-pel)
2
I use the unmarked plural in -r throughout of the passive, since I think
it safe to assume it can be used impersonally
3
munui, not erui, cf. VT42
4
dh in edhebaid is not the spirant, but
d + h, and the word is
used to translate "outer shores"
5
For 'when', which is a frequent word in the passage, I have used the
Welsh-style construction ned i-lû (gerund/verbnoun) "at the time
of...". Cf.
Welsh ar bryd dod y rhyfelwyr "when the warriors came", lit. 'at
[the] time
[of the] coming [of the] warriors'.
6
A gerund of a suggested cognate of Qenya usta
7
*aeben is a highly tentative reconstruction of the Sindarin cognate of
Quenya aiquen since we can assume the usage of -pen is pronominal here.
8
i awarthant Feanor
aen This is a very hypothetical solution to the problem of relative clauses attributed to objects. I think it can be parsed as
"whom Feanor left him". Such a parsing method is used, as Ivan Derzhanski notes, in literary Welsh,
as well as Hebrew, Persian, and Arabic.
9
iand is a suggested cognate of Qenya yando
10
minc is a suggested pa. t. form of a verb
*mîg-, derived from the stem
MIK (wherefrom maeg also stems)
11
This is a hypothetical cognate of Quenya sië, isolated from násië
12
I think that the former nasalized stops emerge as such when lenited, on their basis of LotR
naur dan i-ngaurhoth, where the sg. form ngaurhoth obviously has ñg:, not
ñ.
The word hýl (lenited pl. of sûl) must obviously have a circumflex over
the y (the HTML code is &375;)
