Glorfindel's
greeting to Aragorn
|
Ai na vedui Dúnadan! Mae govannen! |
Hail at last, Westman! Well met! |
Tolkien provided a translation for the second part of that greeting only, in a letter to Rhona Beare (n° 230 in Humphrey Carpenter's edition). The first part is interpolated after the nearby following salutation to Frodo - translated, that is in Common Speech in the fictional frame of The Lord of the Rings - which seems to be of similar form.
Quotations of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Édouard Kloczko, Christopher Gilson, Patrick Wynne, Rhona Beare, Thomas Alan Shippey, Charles Kennedy, Elaine Treharne, André Crépin, Régis Boyer, François-Xavier Dillmann, Gabriel Rebourcet, Keith Bosley, Pierre-Yves Lambert, Gwyn Jones, Thomas Jones are under the copyright of their publishers.
Last update of the site : 2006, August 9th.
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