Stupid elvish tricks...

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I was poking at my recent addiction, found I suddenly needed Legolas at Helm's-Deep to say, "Aragorn, you are not yet king. [And] alas, the hands of a king will not heal all wounds."

Aragorn. A si le ú-aran. Nae caim aran ú-nathathar chery bain.

Suddenly I realized what I had written.



A si ú-aran.


STILL NOT KING.



hee hee hee...

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Worse and worse...

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I think these are right, though I'm a bit unsure about how to get "wain" the superlative ending fused with the word for "fair".

A si bainwain!

Still (lit. "To now") the prettiest!

Perhael dagitha hon ae e câr nad.

Sam will kill him if he does (some)thing.

This is the scary one. I had to use "un-cover/un-conceal" for "show", but I found the word rinc defined as "twitch, jerk, trick, sudden move".

Mithrandir ú-dholthant a hon rinc lín e-chareb vegor.

Gandalf showed to him his pointy hat trick.
(Literally: Gandalf uncovered to him trick-his of-the-hat pointed.)

Ú-dholtho enni rinc lín e-chareb vegor!

Show me your pointy hat trick!





I'm running away very fast now. O.o

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AHHH! thats great!

(ps I came over from the link at cassieclaire's journal)

wow...

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Whoops. I see I tripped again on the accents. That first letter is u with an ACUTE accent like it is in "not-king" up top. It's the negation sign.



And on a more serious note, I watched TTT one more time to investigate some stuff, and was totally blown away when the elvish was no longer just pretty-sounding, but words. Words I wasn't translating. Words I was hearing, knowing what they meant. For a Latin scholar, that is an almost eerie feeling. :)

I got tears in my eyes. I'm such a GEEK. But it sounds even more beautiful once you're hearing the words, not random noises.