Linnod aglareb

[Huanarmo]

Following a recent exchange of verbal bouquets, a linnod somehow emerged. With thanks to Eryniel and, of course, Gilraen.

Aglar e-gorn aglareb farn; ú-chebin aglar anim.

'The praise of the praiseworthy is praise enough; I keep no praise for myself.'

[Eryniel]

wonderful Huanarmo

I do think the "of the praiseworthy" is e-gorn aglareb? Then I think it's missing a "praise"....

Aglar e-gorn aglareb aglar farn; ú-chebin aglar anim... ?

[Huanarmo]

It's a rare pleasure to be thought to have used too few words. I don't know of an Elvish word for 'blush', so a smiley will have to convey mine

Now it's quite possible I condensed too much, but I was intending e-gorn to render all by itself the meaning 'of the revered' = 'of the praiseworthy'.

A transliteration of the original would have been "(the) praise of-the-revered (is) glorious enough; I-keep-no praise for-myself. With a wee bit of poetic licence I morphed aglareb ~ 'glorious' into 'praise' in the original translation.

This was a Sindarin composition rendered into English, not the other way about. But working from the English into Sindarin, I do see what you mean.

Savo 'lass

[Eryniel]

Ahhh, no need to blush then
It was rather my mistake.

[findegil]

I was intending e-gorn to render all by itself the meaning 'of the revered' = 'of the praiseworthy'.

But since gorn 'revered' derives from ¤ngornā (PE17:113), shouldn't it be e-ngorn or en-gorn then? I think e-gorn would rather mean 'of the round [one]' (corn with mutation c > g, cf. the parallel t > d in e-Dinúviel, MR 373).

[Huanarmo]

Thanks, Findegil.

I should have taken the hint from the PE:113 reference to 'Ara(n)gorn'.

Having looked again at the Mixed mutation table, could it perhaps even be en-ngorn?

Somehow I prefer the look of e-ngorn or en-gorn. This is good practice at using the mutation tables, which were so daunting at first sight.

[findegil]

Having looked again at the Mixed mutation table, could it perhaps even be en-ngorn?
Somehow I prefer the look of e-ngorn or en-gorn.

So do I. AFAIK there are, after all, no genuine examples of mixed-mutation (n)G-, so we have to rely on the educated guess that it behaves analogically to (n)D-. Thus *e-ngorn parallels the canonical Taur e-Ndaedelos and *en-gorn Bar-en-Danwedh (UT:100). (Haudh-en-Ndengin is not directly comparable as containing a plural.)