I lambi yåri - I laim ioer 

Lothenon's account in Old and Middle Sindarin

by Florian 'Lothenon' Dombach

 

These are Florian Dombach's Old Sindarin and Middle Sindarin translations and tengwar transcriptions and a full legend of all words used in this short text written by a fiction character Lothenon. Lothenon is a scholar, writer and poet and so has some knowledge of the ancient tongues and wrote this little text for...well, it's all in the text itself :)

About the Middle Sindarin version Florian wrote: As I looked the Old Sindarin version I felt the need to also translate it 1:1 to Sindarin and then chose to try it in Middle-Sindarin (or what we call so) and after looking at Daniel Andries' fantastic artwork again I decided to write it in his gothic style of Tengwar too.

Below we present both texts and both tengwar transcriptions.

 

Old Sindarin text:

 

Lūmena i ñgolodi tulnete ekla-mbarna aran Thindekollo abapente i lambe ndūneo ar si yukthanete i lambe thindērimbeo.

 

Hyathli khantete, makli lanthanete, i lūme galne aniåra ar i lambe ndūneo apa lekthane yukthe endoresse ar i lambe thindē wektheo galne ar prestane.

 

Si-lūme imbē, Lotthinondo ndorelo imbē otok duini, tekthane sina an i rīna lambio randao minåya.

 

Glossary

 

Middle Sindarin text:

 

Lûna i ngœlydh dœllir na Eglamar aran Thingol avabed i lam annûn ar si iuithanner i lam Thindrim.
 

Heithl channer, meigl lanner, i lû ghalant eniaur ar i lam annûn aba-leithant iuith mi ennor ar i lam en-gwaith thind ghalant ar prestant.
 

Si-lû im, Lothenon o ndôr im duin odog, teithon hen adh rîn e-laim andrann mhinui.

 

Glossary

 

English translation:

 

'As the Noldor came to Beleriand king Thingol forbade the tongue of the west and they now used the tongue of the grey-elves.

 

Axes broke asunder, swords fell, the time grew older and the tongue of the west completely lost usage in middle-earth and the tongue of the grey people grew and changed.

 

Today I, Lothenon from the land between the seven rivers, write this for the remembrance of the languages of the first age.'

 

Old Sindarin tengwar transcription:

 

 

Florian writes about his old Sindarin transcription into Tengwar: Mainly I use the phonemic mode Tolkien used for English but I also used upper-and-lower-length-tengwar for breathed stops, andaith for long vowels and the curl-tehta opened to the right for opening vowels. I imagine this to be a phonetic elvish mode to write foreign languages; kind of an elvish IPA of younger periods than the First Age. (I do not expect Tolkien meant that, it's just a personal thing for LARP).

 

Middle Sindarin tengwar transcription:

 

 

Florian Dombach used here Daniel Andries' gothic style of tengwar.

 

Old Sindarin Glossary:

 

lūmena - as | lit. ´at the time´: lūme - time, -na - allative (< Q -nna and suffixed na in Mature S “Tuorna” - to Tuor)
i – definite article (< S and Q)
ñgolodi - Noldor (sg. ñgolodo)
tulnete - came | tuli- - to come, -ne – past tense, -tethey (< Q -ntë [and CE –te])
ekla-mbarna
- to Beleriand | ekla-mbarBeleriand
aranking
Thindēkolla - Thingol | made up from Thindē-kolla (> S thind coll > Thingol)
abapente - forbade | abapet- - to forbid  (< Q váquet- - to forbid/refuse [> S ?avabed-]), abapente - he came
lambetongue
ndūneo - of the west | ndūne -
west

arand
si - now
yukthanete - they used | yuktha- - to use
thindērimbeo - of the grey-elves | thindērimbe - grey-elves (from S Thindrim)
 

hyathli - axes (sg. hyathla)
khantete
- (they) broke asunder | khat- - to break (< Q hat-)
makli - swords (sg. makla)
lanthanete - (they) fell | lantha- - to fall
galne - (it) grew | gala- - to grow
aniåra - older | yåra - old
apa - completely | < Q aqua
lekthane - (they) lost | lektha- - to loose (<  Q lehta-)
yukthausage
endoresse - in middle-earth | endore - middle-earth, -sse
locative

thindē - grey
wektheoof the people | wekthe
people

prestane – (it) changed | prestato change (lit. to affect)
 

si-lūmetoday | si now, lūme – time/occasion
imbēI
Lotthinondo – “Lothenon” | name: “the blossoming” (S) (loth [blossom] > lothen [of blossom]> lothenon [the one who is...]) rebuilt to OS lotthe > lotthina > lotthino(ndo)
ndorelofrom the land | ndoreland, -loablative (< Q –llo) Maybe rather aud ndore?
imbēbetween
otok
seven

duinirivers | sg. duine
tekthane – (I) write | tektha- - to write, -ne
- I

sinathis
an
for

rīnaremembrance
lambioof the languages | lambilanguages (sg. lambe) Just suffix the genitive –o?

randaoof the age | randaage
minåyafirst | reconstructed after S minui (min-ui):
minē-åya

 

Middle Sindarin Glossary:

lûna - as (lit. 'at the time') | + suffix na (s. S Tuorna, na Duor)
avabed- - forbid | <Q vaquet-
hanner - they broke asunder | *had- - to break asunder <Q hat-
lanner - they fell | lanna- - to fall< Q lanta- u. S. lant
aba -
completely | Q aqua > OS *apa > (M)S *aba
leithant - it lost | *leitha- - to loose;Q lehta > OS *lektha- > (M)S *leitha- (s. also leithia- - to release)

 

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