La la la, geeking out over Quenya translation

[luzula]

Inspired by my last post, have a translation of Gerard Manley Hopkins' Spring and Fall: To a Young Child into Quenya. Will geek out over the translation at the slightest provocation--it's obviously not word for word, and there were some interesting choices to make here.

Tuilë ar lasselanta: nessa hínan

Marilla, ma nyéral
Laurenor alautiën?
Lassi, ve i tanwi fírimaron, le
Cévi sanwelyainen méla, ma istal?
Ai! Írë i enda yeryuva
Yétuvalyet ringar lá
Irë lúmë auta, úvalyë fírë
Er malwë lassi atalantië caituvar;
Ananta nyénal ar méral ista manan.
I essë umë valdëa, hína:
Nyérëo ehteli nár imya.
Anto ar sáma umir quetë
Yan i enda hlarnë, i fairë intyanë.
Fírimar óner yarun sina,
Marillan nyéral.

Gah, this stuff is almost addictive! I could do it all day.

Comments

[butterflyghost]

Gah - you are beyond awesome. Now you can post it on AO3 in a whole new fandom - Gerard Manley Hopkins! I'd love to hear a podfic of you reading it. Your voice is awesome.

And GMH would approve I am sure of Geekishness in general.

[luzula]

Ha, no, I'm not sure it really counts as a fanwork--I mean, it's just a translation of one of his poems. Although of course, there's definitely a fannish impulse behind it.

(And hi! Haven't seen you in a while.)

[butterflyghost]

I exhausted myself last year with Bookman, and didn't go online much while I was recouping my creative energies. Wouldn't say I'm all the way 'recouped' yet, but I'm getting there.

[luzula]

Still haven't read all of Bookman, but I will! As I recall, I've read parts 1 and 2.

[ride_4ever]

It would have to be used within the context of a fanfic in order to qualify for posting on AO3.

And yeah, I agree that it would be gorgeous for a Luzula podfic.

[butterflyghost]

TYK for the explanation, Ride. :D

[ride_4ever]

Oh dear. I wasn't fully informed about the meta on AO3 (see Luzula's follow-up to my comment about AO3 posting).

[luzula]

Actually you can post meta to AO3 as well! (Also art, podfic, vids, etc, of course.)

[ride_4ever]

TYK for increasing my knowledge! (I hadn't made the connection to the meta aspect.)

Speaking of podfics, I have been podficced for the first time and I don't know how to link my fic, which is on AO3, with the podfic. Would you increase my knowledge on that, too?

[luzula]

Well, of course you can manually add a link to the podfic in the notes section of your fic. But as a podficcer, I usually link to the fic by means of the "inspired by" feature. There's no way to do that from the author's end, though, so you'd have to ask your podficcer to do it, if that's how you want it.

[dragonfly]

See icon. *g*

[luzula]

Aww, thanks. : )

[seascribble]

Still my favourite thing! :D

[luzula]

Yay! : )

[jjhunter]

I would love to hear your reading of this, if you might be moved to record it. (And if you would consider recording also the English original — there's something to be said for hearing the same reader perform both in helping one get at meaning even in languages 'all Greek' to them.)

[luzula]

I have actually recorded the English original already! : ) I remember having to practice a lot before recording it, to tease out how I wanted to do it.

Will consider recording this one!

[ride-4ever.livejournal.com]

Wow! *gazes in amazement*

[luzula]

Uh, thanks? Mostly I was thinking "oh no, I shouldn't do this, I have so many other things to do, but apparently I can't stop". : )