Atalante
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O Sauron túle nukumna... ...lantaner Turkildi nu·huinenna... ...Tar-Kalion ohtakáre Valannar... ...Númeheruvi Arda sakkante le·néme Ilúvatáren... ...ëari ullier i·kilyanna... ...Númenóre ataltane...
Vahaiya sín Andóre. Haiya vahaiya síne atalante. |
And Sauron came humbled... ...the Princes of Men fell under the shadow... ...Tar-Kalion made war upon the Valar... ...the Lords of the West rent the Earth with leave of Ilúvatar... ...that seas should flow into the chasm... ...Númenor fell down...
Far away now is the Land of Gift. Far, far away now is the Downfallen. |
In the narrative frame of The Notion Club Papers, these fragments with others in Adûnaic are heard in dream by Alwin Arundel Lowdham; they are evidently extracts of a lament about the fall of Númenor. The translation is composed after the interlinear glosses of the source.
The development of these texts is very complex; we give the final version from Sauron Defeated p. 247. The same book gives earlier versions at pp. 310-311. Besides, The Lost Road, Tolkien's unfinished novel, of which The Notion Club Papers are an expanded rewriting, includes very similar bits of Qenya and in the same context. We heartily recommend to those who wish to delve deeper in these matters Aleš Bičan's excellent essay The Atalante Fragments, that can be downloaded on his website Elm (http://www.elvish.org/elm/index2.html) and is available too in the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship's article collection (http://www.elvish.org/articles/).
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.
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