For the LiveJournal tolkien_weekly "Water: Sea" challenge.
"How best should I render this phrase – wings of fire, or flames like wings? What do you advise?"
Barely a flicker crosses the golden-haired Elda's face; but the Hobbit sees and is at once contrite.
"Forgive me – in my enthusiasm I forget! Doubtless you would rather not recall-"
"We must all suffer for scholarship's sake, little master." Smiling, Glorfindel reaches for the parchment. "Let me see…"
Elen sila am lúmen vín govaded, nín mellon - “A star shines upon the hour of our meeting, my friend.” (Elen and lúmen are Old Sindarin, according to Ardalambion. I have a hunch Bilbo might have a bit of a poetical affection for the slightly flowerier-sounding O.S.)
“Bilbo's 'Translations from the Elvish’…were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written.” - The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Prologue, Note on the Shire Records, my emphasis!
“Bilbo's 'Translations from the Elvish’…were found to be a work of great skill and learning in which, between 1403 and 1418, he had used all the sources available to him in Rivendell, both living and written.” - The Fellowship of the Ring, LoTR Prologue, Note on the Shire Records, my emphasis!