Hello, could someone help me translate the phrase 'Grow Damn It' or 'Grow you Bastard' as it would refer to plants? I want to make my in law a plant pot and have this across the front. Thank you!

Hi everyone, apologies if this has been posted here before. Can I have help translating “above all shadows rides the sun” in Sindarin? I don’t trust the online translator machines. Thank in advance!

Please help!! I have tried chat GBT but I don't know if it's legit...Thank you so much!! ChatGBT says: "Nai elen siluva, naid Earendil" Another site translates it as "Lothron cin mir i galad o Earendil" Is any of this correct??

I've looked at a few sources and trying to translate the Samwise quote 'There's some good in this world and it's worth fighting for'

Both elfdict and eldamo had different outcomes so I'm unsure which is closest or if either are correct

'dha ind albeth in nef amar ar inna baladh maeth for'

'Ennas nodui bain mi hen amar a ed baladh dagor for'

hello! i need to choose a name for a dagger that was given to my character by an elf and im really having trouble translating it right

i wanted to call it “the dagger of the huntress of light” how do I translate this into sindarin?

Hey guys I need help with a name for my oc. She’s an elf from Mirkwood so to my understanding her name would be in Sindarin or is it Silvan elvish? (but tbh i’m fine if it’s in Quenya because honestly I have no clue what the difference is) Anyway back to the name I’m thinking of something like “silent/quiet stream/river” or “beautiful river” and then a suffix of some sort.

I wrote down some ideas but I’m not sure if these are quite right based of the limited material I browsed. Dinduineth which I THINK translates to silent river girl. Baineniel = daughter of beautiful water? Dinsiriell = daughter of the silent stream? and then Dinnenthel = silent water sister?

Anyway any help at all is appreciated to make new names or even just how to pronounce some of these properly because I’m pretty sure i’m butchering all these words lmfao

Update: I’ve decided to go with Nelloth “Flower of the River” thanks guys <3

So I've been wanting to get my family motto tattooed for awhile but I wanted to get it in an elvish script, can anyone help me with this? The motto is "He who conquers, conquers himself". Any help to get this translated properly would be greatly appreciated!

Hi all,

I'm getting my first, and very important tattoo in the next few months. The novel 'Slaughterhouse V' is a very important book to me, and I'm hoping to get the closest approximation of the most well known phrase of "So it goes" so I can put it into Sindarin script as part of the tattoo.

It doesn't have to be a one-to-one (although that would be lovely), but something that is as close as can be.

I could just put the words into a "translator" but I don't think that does the whole "being a nerd" thing justice 😅

Many thanks in advance!

My best friend and I are getting matching tattoos; since "snacks" isn't a word in Sindarin, i went with "little food" and wanted to check the translation I went with - pîn math.

And just making sure- Since those are Sindarin words, I can put them into a translator for the written version and have it be accurate?

Thank you!

I play Lord of the Rings Online, and I recently created a new character. I let the game randomly choose the name and it came up with Ethovir. I'm striking out on looking up word roots to decipher this one. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Can Katniss Everdeen (from hungergames) be translated into Sindarin? If not what could be the closest thing?

I'm not literate in Sindarin yet, so I need help. How would you-if you can-translate the names, Ellie, Gemma, and Lucy? If you need the English translation, Ellie means, God is my light, Gemma means gem (shocker), and Lucy means simply, light.

Pronunciation and how to write it in actual elvish would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Hi I need hero to translate in Sindarin "Of an unfinished journey" or "the unfinished tale" something like that and if it possible to have the transcription in Tengwar. Thankyou so much

Throwing this out as a 'Hail Mary' A close friend of mine is Proposing to his Girlfriend, who is a massive Tolkien fan.

The phrase "I love all of you, with all of me" is significant to them, and I'm thinking I'll try to write it out in Tengwar, but if I could get it translated to Sindarin first, that would be huge. If anyone wants to make a crack at translating the phrase, I'd be very grateful.

The Phrase is already translated from norwegian, and a more detailed breakdown of the phrase would be something like "I love the entirety of your being, with the entirety of my being"

Grateful for any help~

Hi all, Id like to create a Lotr valentine's card But with the front in Elvish (im not too knowledgeable as he is) Is there a translation for possibly Happy Valentine's day or Happy day of love? Something along those lines to represent valentine?

Many thanks 🙏

My mother passed away from esophageal cancer—what will be five years ago this January 21st. She was not only the first love of my life, my first friend, and the person who introduced me to everything that shaped my truest self. She was a musician, an artist, a writer, and an avid reader. She adored the fantasy genre and might have been the biggest Tolkien fan I've ever known. She loved the stories deeply. She even cherished the films when they came out, and she had a particular fondness for the Elven race.

My cat, Arwyn (spelled differently), was named after Arwen Undómiel. She was the love of my life and the closest thing to a child I ever had. Tragically, she passed away from cancer just a few months after my mother. That period of my life was devastatingly dark and painful.

I have many tattoos and have been wanting to get one in memory of my mother, but I haven’t been able to settle on a design that fully encapsulates her essence and my profound love for her. I’ve decided on a neo-traditional style, incorporating elements that remind me of her and the things she loved. Instead of using "Mama" or "Mom," I want to honor her by having it say "Mother" in Sindarin, the Elven language she adored. However, I want to make absolutely sure I get the correct spelling and script. I can't bear the thought of creating a tribute to her that is misspelled or incorrect—it’s too sacred, too special.

Does anyone know the exact Sindarin spelling of "Mother" and how it’s properly written? Please, I would be so grateful for your help. My mom deserves this tribute to be done perfectly, just as she was perfect to me and to everyone lucky enough to know her.

Thank you!

So I live off of a road named Mt. Misery and I was trying to figure out what the Elven translations for this would be? The closest thing I could come up with from a quick google search would maybe be Orodbaul in Sindarin - Orod meaning "Mountain" and -baul meaning "torment". Would this be correct?

Got sent here from r/tolkienfans and hoping the experts could help me out. Thanks!

Thank you so much!

Fellow language dweebs,

I'm planning on getting this tattooed on me this week, but before I make a very permanent grammar mistake, I would very much appreciate if I could get some feedback on this translation. I did it myself and so I do not feel the most confident. Tengwar attached, Sindarin (in latin alphabet) as follows: Sí na i veth naid îl. English translation: Here at the end of all things.

Heya there, just wanted to get some feedback from someone who might know a lot more about this. I wanted to translate my own name in to Sindarin. And since my name means Father of Peace I've come to the name "Adarîdh" would that be correct or an I supposed to add something with it.

All help greatly appriciated :)

I'm looking to start getting some Sindarin tattoos done and so I'm trying to do my due diligence. Instead of just having English written in Tengwar, I'd prefer to have them actually in the Sindarin language. I specifically want Sindarin over Quenya for multiple reasons.

To that end, there are some translations I'm wanting to make sure are done correctly, and there are others that seem to have no equivalent (I've used the Parf Edhellen site for some of the words, with Tecendil as the Tengwar transcribing site). If anyone can help me either confirm these translations or give me a better equivalent, I would be forever grateful.

Wanderer - randir (I wanted to do traveller, but wanderer/pilgrim seemed to be the closest I could get)

Father - adar

Lover - melethor (this one I could meleth for "love" and put the "-or" on the end, but this one I'm not 100% certain of. It's meant to mean someone who is passionate in their love, not just for friends or even people, but a general lover)

Thinker - sanar

Storyteller - this is the one I think I need the most help with. I was considering doing something like narn or glaer and maeron for story artist/poet, but if there's a better 1-to-1 for storyteller, I couldn't find it). I was also considering going with glaerebdir. I believe that means "a man full of stories," or making it a compound work/name and going with narnvearon.

Any assistance or guidance on these would be deeply appreciated!

The quote is “there is always hope”. Thank you so much!

Hello there! So, I was thinking of creating a character and for fun, I was thinking of giving them a sindar version of the names Mary and Elizabeth.

I did try to cobble together something for the name Mary but I figured it's better to ask the folks here who are more of an expert, especially since I'm struggling to figure out Elizabeth.

Ah, and while we're at it, I was wondering if there's sindarin names that means..

Light's Hearth, Light's Hope, Starlight, Knight/Paladin

Sorry for so many requests! I'm just throwing things around for character names right now.

I would like some help coming up with a name for my new larp character. I'm hoping to go for something like crafter or maker, maybe alchemist. The ones I've come up are Pauron (though that might mean I am a tool instead of I use tools), echadon (but I was trying to avoid 'ch' so it is easier to pronounce without practice), Carnadon (maker of things?, just generic small things), and tanon (but this implies larger projects than he does). I am avoiding using '-dir' to keep it distinctly different from my last character, Cudir. Have I overlooked a word that would work well? Did I miss a name making rule that would make one of these sound better? The character can do a bit of enchanting, can repair armor, can do alchemy, and can bring in 'small crafts' with minor effects (either magical or not).

Hi I'm looki for two Sindarin's names and in Quenya. One is for an elf and I was thinking to something like "golden star" or " golden flame" in Sindarin and in Quenya something that sounds like that. For the other Sindsrin name I was thinking something related to wolfs, like "noble wolf" or "dark wolf". Thankyou all for the help

I am writing a story and I am stuck looking for a Sindarin name meaning “maiden of Uinen”. Uinen is one of the Maiar who rules the inner seas. The translation I had was Uinwen, which is Uinen + gwen (“maiden”). Does anyone one have a better suggestion?