Galadriel's lament, preparatory version
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Ai! laurie lantar lassi súrinen. Enlentári Vardan Oiolossëan |
Alas! like gold fall the leaves in the wind. Years numberless like the wings of trees - you many years have run away in the lands. In the West, without meads, Varda from the vaults clove the waves, the voices of the golden leaves are thirsting [?for Varda]. Enlentári Varda from Oiolosse, Tintalle of the yellow wings then uplifted and ?-? all paths truly ?became many black waves from a grey country under the jewels ?worn by Valimar. |
This early version of Galadriel's lament was published in The Treason of Isengard pp. 284-285. There are others; the development of the text was studied by David Salo in Tyalië Tyelleliéva n° 12. Many words can be understood, but there remains enough obscurities to make a secure translation difficult. We here give Édouard Kloczko's interpretation from the first volume of his Dictionnaire des langues elfiques.
Références
Kloczko, Édouard. Les langues elfiques, volume 1 : Dictionnaire Quenya-Français-Anglais. Toulon: Tamise productions, 1995. 214 p. (Encyclopédie de la Terre du Milieu; 1). Titre de couv. : Dictionnaire des langues elfiques, volume 1. ISBN 2-910681-03-3
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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