May 20 12:22

Welcome to Aglardh!

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Mar 12 14:00

Envinyanta

So here we go again, Aglardh is up and running, albeit not without changes... So I am trying to explain it away.

Oct 27 22:57

Fairion felehta - video

Fairion felehta that I posted during 2010 is now accompanied with a video (Quenya subtitles and music).

http://www.quettar-orenyallo.ch/neoquenya%20own/fairion%20felehta.htm

Oct 18 10:46

On Mercy

Órávie ua nírina,
Lanteas ve lisserosse menello
Cemenna nún: náse manna yú;
Manyas ye anta ar ye came:
Náse melehtaron melehta: netyas
N’ingaran ambe lá ríerya;
Tarolwenya tenta tauretúre wilwa,
Arwa áya yo melehte,
Yallo tuia aranion áya yo thosse;
Mal órávie orya or ta rína túre;
Haris aranion órissen,
Náse Eru imséva indóme.

Oct 11 09:31

Well, I'm back.

Náto uan ista man úna nán:
Yeryas ní; quétal yeryas elye;
Mal manen mampennampen, hirnen, camnenyes,
Mallo cárina, mallo óna,
En penin.1
Ar t'alasaila cólo ora ni,
Samin sangie imni hanya.

(Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene I.)

  1. 1. Figurative for "I am still to learn, I don't know yet"
Aug 31 17:37

Quaine pitya-naukoron

There was a number song at the end of Omentielva Cantea, but it was just all the numbers in order, which is kind of boring. Try instead singing the following text to this melody:

Mine, atta, nelde naukoron,
Kanta, lempe, enque nornoron,
Otso, tolto, nerte nuxoron,
Pitya-naukoron quain.

Quaine, nerte, tolto nuxoron,
Otso, enque, lempe nornoron,
Kanta, nelde, atta naukoron,
Naukaliello min.

For the advanced, there is also a Sindarin version:

Min naug, tâd noeg, neledh nibin-noeg,

May 07 09:10

Lóre

To change from haiku and tanka, here is a cinquain following the Adelaide Crapsey form that has a syllabic pattern of 2/4/6/8/2 or a syllabic stress pattern of 1/2/3/4/1. A. Crapsey gave titles to her cinquains that could form part of a 6th line. I tried the same here:

LÓRE
Alqua
celumesse
ara ráva lutta
yat mi quessaron sére ve
fána

A swan
on the flow
beside the bank floats
neck within feathers' peace like
a cloud

and here is the French version (classic syllabic count)I wrote yesterday after having watched a beautiful swan floating down the Rhône. :

Apr 26 15:27

Spring mood

Tuileo lindi
ter i aure lamyea
aiweo "qui qui"
sámanyas nallamyea
é, mana qui, mana qui...

This Tanka works of course only in Quenya or any other language where the sound of "kwi" means "if"!

Spring tunes
through the day sounds
a bird's "if, if"
in my mind sounds back
indeed, what is if, what is if...

Apr 16 16:58

Er nat i losta

A new version:

Aiweo líre -
titta nat fantea mai
aldo parnie

Bird's song -
a little thing veils well
tree's nakedness

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Er nat ya losta
aldasse lasselóra --
aiweo líre

One thing that blooms
on the leafless tree --
bird's song

Mar 02 01:09

Ránolairë, MMXI-III

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Men hlapuvar falmar, írë, anta notinyë wendëo
Telmamma ná er et cirë úmoiniennar Aryalto

Yar óra men, lá nat aiqua ná, lau apsa, alassë, cén
Már caita ahyalë pella; tellenda, ve Mair' Elen

Malloronti ar Til Ninquë nëa hyatsepanner olonyar:
Hlarnen lindë i Toliello, yar laumë rahtar fírimar

. . . "Quí fanyar sórainë tullier, men tannientyë i tië?"
Nan, aiyan írë menelenna, cint' eldi er cénan é . . .

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