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Man-ie, atto?

Atarinya tye-meláne.

A yonya inye tye-méla.

What is it, father?

My father, I love thee.

And I too, my son, I love thee.


These few pieces of Qenya appear in the Númenorean part of Tolkien's unfinished novel The Lost Road, each time with their meaning immediately following.



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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