r/Quenya

Hello! I’m new here!
Can someone help me to translate “I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.” I've always loved that line of Gandalf's.
I try Tecendil but I want a second opinion from some expert here!
Sorry if my English is not the best! Thank you all.

Hi!

Somebody in another sub reddit very kindly helped transcribe the name of a proposal sword im getting engraved for my boyfriend - 'Bright Oath' as Calivanda. Just double checking this is correct before I go ahead 😁

(Also does anybody have a pronunciation just for when I tell him the name 🤣)

Thank you 😁

Hey Guys,

I'm making a friend a sword for her birthday and want to give it a Quenya inscription. Her name roughly means "beloved light/star" or "star/light who is worthy of love." If someone could give me the best quenya translation for this I'd really appreciate it since I want it to be correct for something I'm putting a lot of work into.

Edit: Her first name is Amanda and her middle name is Elle.

Hi all! I've been working on a Quenya translation of the Buddhist Heart Sutra (般若心経), working from the Japanese rendering of the shorter Chinese recension rather than directly from Sanskrit... for reasons. This is part of a larger project I'm doing, translating various esoteric texts into Quenya (I'm also working on the Emerald Tablet).

I'll probably make another post in the future asking for help with the semantic stuff, but for now I'm working through a few terms I'm just rendering phonetically and I'd really appreciate a sanity check from people who know the phonology better than I do on the transliterated/borrowed terms specifically. I'm just trying to verify whether these adaptations are phonotactically sound and whether there are cleaner options.

The terms in question:

Source	My Quenya rendering	Notes
Avalokiteśvara	Alatísaro	shortened, modeled loosely on how the Chinese/Japanese versions compress this name
Bodhisattva	Votisatta	bh → v, final cluster simplified
Buddha / Buddhas	Vota / Votari	Same bh → v logic
Bodhi	Voti	Same deal again
Prajñā (via Jp. hannya)	Panya	Initial cluster pr- reduced to p-
Nirvāṇa (via Jp. nehan)	Nehan	Kept the Japanese form as it seems an easy enough fit
Śāriputra	Sariputra	Kept as-is, I think this also works?
Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā	Catë catë, Paragate, Parasangate, Voti Suahá	Mostly kept close to Sanskrit

Happy to share the full text if anyone wants more context. Thanks in advance!

Edit: removed initial G

I have a pen case that I'd like to customize by adding the phrase "You will not know" to the border. I'd like to do it in Quenya, but am unsure of an accurate translation. Could you please help? Thank you.

Hi guys! I wonder if there is any dictionary for Quenya with pronounciation given, IPA is ok.

Any ideas?

Cheers and thanks in advance!