Quenya - Corpus

Corpus

The poem Namárië is the longest piece of Quenya found in The Lord of the Rings; yet the first Quenya sentence is uttered by a Hobbit: Frodo's greeting to the Elves: elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo. Other examples include Elendil's words spoken upon reaching Middle-earth, and repeated by Aragorn at his coronation: Et Eärello Endorenna utúlien. Sinomë maruvan ar Hildinyar tenn' Ambar-metta!. Treebeard's greeting to Celeborn and Galadriel is also spoken in Quenya: A vanimar, vanimálion nostari.

Other Quenya poems spoken by J.R.R. Tolkien in public but never published in his lifetime are Oilima Markirya ("The Last Ark"), Nieninqe, and Earendel contained in his lecture A Secret Vice and published for the first time in 1983 in The Monsters and the Critics. A fragment (with mistakes) of the poem Narqelion, written in early Quenya or Elfin, was published by Humphrey Carpenter in his Biography; a facsimile of the entire poem was published in April 1999 in Vinyar Tengwar 40.