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4. Elrond and Arwen [The Two Towers]

A talk between Elrond and his daughter Arwen in Imladris.

Elrond: Tollen i lû. I chair gwannar na Valannor. Si bado, no círar.
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Elrond: Ah im, ú-'erin veleth lîn?
Arwen: Gerich veleth nîn, ada.

Elrond: 'The ships are leaving for Valinor. Go now, before it is too late.' [lit. 'Come [is] the time. The ships depart to Balannor (Valinor). Now go, before they sail.']
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Elrond: 'Do I not also have your love?' [lit. 'And I, don't-I-have love your?']
Arwen: 'You have my love, father.' [lit. 'You-have love my, dad.']

tollen v. pp. 'come'; cf. tol- 'come'.

i lû n. 'the time'.

chair n. 'ships'; nasal mutation of cair 'ship' (sg. & pl.). Helge Fauskanger wrote about this word: "the ships should be i chîr, not i chair. Cair 'ship' belongs to the group of nouns in ai that have plural forms in î. The plural cîr occurs in the names Círdan 'Maker of Ships' and (in shortened and lenited form -gir) in Pelargir 'Garth of Royal Ships'. Of course, the nasal mutation and the plural verb show that i chair is meant to be a plural form (since the singular 'the ship departs' would be i gair gwanna with soft mutation and a singular verb). Therefore, the sentence is still intelligible. Well, let us imagine that Elrond, though he tries to appear calm, is actually desperately trying to persuade Arwen to come with him to Valinor. His little grammatical error gives away his inner turmoil...".

gwannar v. pres. '[they] depart'; cf. gwanna- 'to depart, to die' (LR 397).

na Valannor n. 'to Valinor'; Valannor is a lenited form of Balannor 'Valinor'. Vincente Velasco writes: "That word may be fine during the time of the Etymologies, but in the fifties, Tolkien had ceased using that word, and substituted it with Dor-Rodyn. IMHO, Balannor is most probably a Sindarized (i.e., by the Noldor) form of Valinor. The Sindar knew about this land, but referred to it as Dor-Rodyn."

si adv. 'now'.

bado v. imper. 'go'; cf. *bad- 'go'.

no prep. 'before'; cf. no 'under, *before'.

círar v. pres. '[they] sail'; *cír- 'to sail'.

ah conj. 'and'; D. Salo uses this form in place of a 'and' before a word beginning with vowel.

im pron. 'I'.

ú adv. 'not'.

'erin v. pres. 'I have'; lenited form of gerin 'I have'.

veleth n. 'love'; lenited form of meleth 'love'.

lîn pron. 'your'.

nîn pron. 'my'.

gerich v. pres. 'you have'; cf. gar- 'to hold, have' (LR 360) + -ch according to D. Salo 2nd sg. 'you'.

ada n. 'father, daddy (hypocoristic) (LR 349)'.

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5. Elrond's Lament [The Return of the King?]

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elrond: I Aear cân ven «Namar»
elrond: 'The Sea calls us «Farewell»'

i aear n. 'the sea'.

cân v. pres. 'calls'; cf. S can- 'cry out, shout, call' (PM 361-2)

ven pron. 'to us'; lenited form of men; cf. S ammen 'to us' < an-men.

namar interj. 'farewell'; cf. Q namárië.

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