The Two Trees
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Valar empannen Aldaru mi kon-alkorin ar sealálan táro ar sílankálan ve laure ve misil. |
The Gods planted the Two Trees in a blessed garth and they grow high and shine like gold like silver. |
This sentence comes from a manuscript of Tolkien's with notes about several Qenya phrases. On the back there is a draft for the chapter "The white rider" of The Lord of the Rings. Analysing the contents of this document, that the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship named the "Koivienéni Manuscript" and studied in Vinyar Tengwar n°14 and 27, allows to date it between the years 1937 and 1941.
This so-called "Two Trees" sentence given here exists only as a heavily emended draft, without English translation. We here give parts of a possible final version reconstituted by Patrick Wynne and Christopher Gilson in Vinyar Tengwar n° 27, with their interpretation of the meaning.
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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