Short Story - Silver Fox and Coyote on: July 06, 2016 04:52
In order to keep the skills in language from rusting, here is a short story I tried to translate into Quenya. the story is pulled from: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/aat/aat12.htm
First paragraph.
Coyote and Silver-fox lived above in the sky, where there was a world like this one.
Coiótë ar silma-rusco marner i Elenardassë, yassë engë arda vë sina.
Silver-fox was anxious to make things, but Coyote was opposed to the plan.
Silma-rusco estelinqua carë engwi, mal Coiótë avaquentë i pano.
Finally Silver-Fox got tired of Coyote's opposition, and sent him off one day to get wood.
tyelimavë Silma-rusco lumbanë Coiótëo avaquetiello, ar aumentaneryes auressë tultien tavar.
While he was gone, Silver-Fox took an arrow-flaker and made a hole through the upper world, and looked down on the sea below.
Imya lussë yassë vanwiës, Silma-rusco nampë pilin-maica ar carnë terra ter i Elenarda, ar yentë i earessë nún.
When Coyote came back, Silver-Fox did not tell him about the hole he had made.
yá Coiótë nanwennë, Silma-rusco ua quentë se i lattallo ya carnes.
Next day he sent Coyote off again for wood; and in his absence Silver-Fox thrust down the arrow-flaker, and found that it reached to the water, and down to the bottom.
Ento aurë lentanes Coiótë ata hirien tavar; ar yá lá ëala tanomë Silma-rusco nirë undu i pilin-maica, ar eccenses ita rahtanes tenna i nén, ar nún talmanna.
So he descended; and as he came near the surface of the water, he made a small round island, on which he stayed.
Potai undu lendëro, ar yá tulles ambena i palmë i néno, carnes cinta corna tol, harnes tanomë.