The Elves
at Koivienéni
|
Eldar ando kakainen loralyar Koivienenissen mennai Orome tanna lende i erenekkoitanie. |
The elves were long lying asleep at Koivienéni until Orome came thither that he might awake them. |
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. The translation of this "Koivienéni" sentence is by Tolkien himself.
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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