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Praise in the field of Cormallen (Quenya)
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Quenya
Tengwar

   ⸱   
A laita te, laita te!
O bless them, bless them!



  
Andave laituvalmet!
Long we will praise them!



 ⸱    
Cormacolindor, a laita tárienna!
The Ring-bearers, O bless (or praise) them to the heights!

Commentary
Source: The Lord of the Rings, book VI, chapter 4. The translation comes from a letter of J. R. R. Tolkien to Rhona Beare (n° 230 in Humphrey Carpenter’s edition).

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 Namárië manuscript in The Road Goes Ever On p. 65. We made use of Måns Björkman Berg’s typeface Tengwar Eldamar.  Open this mode in Glaemscribe

References
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. The Lord of the Rings. London: HarperCollins, 1999. 3 vol. ISBN 0-261-10235-1.
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien. Selection edited by Humphrey Carpenter with assistance by Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 2006. 480 p. ISBN 0-261-10265-6.

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