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Ortírielyanna
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Quenya
Tengwar

  ⸱   :
Ortírielyanna rucimme, Aina Eruontari.
We fly to thy protection, O holy Mother of God;
  
Alalye nattira arcandemmar
despise not our petitions
⸱    
sangiessemman, ono alye eterúna me
in our necessities, but deliver us
   ⸱
illume ilya raxellor,
always from all dangers,
    ⸱:⸱
alcarin Vénde ar manaquenta.
O glorious and blessed Virgin.

Commentary
In the 1950s, Tolkien made a series of translations of Catholic prayers into Quenya, including the Sub tuum praesidium. We here give the text as published in Vinyar Tengwar n° 44, with an edited punctuation.

The translation is the English version of the prayer.

The text is transcribed in tengwar or “letters of Fëanor” according to the classical mode for Quenya described by Tolkien in the Appendix E to The Lord of the Rings and used for instance by the Namarië manuscript in The Road Goes Ever On p. 65. We made use of Johan Winge’s typeface Tengwar Annatar.  Open this mode in Glaemscribe

References
Vinyar Tengwar: The journal of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, a Special Interest Group of the Mythopoeic Society. Edited by Carl F. Hostetter. Crofton (Maryland): 1988-  . ISSN 1054-7606. 🌍 The Elvish Linguistic Fellowship.

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