-nin

1st sg

_1st sg. poss. suff. my.See also the paradigm of poss. suff. in PE17:46. Earlier -en_. >> -en

nin

pronoun. me

nin

pronoun. me

_ pron. _me.

nin

pronoun. me

nin

me

(object form of ”I”) nin; as indirect object anim or enni ”for myself, (to) me”.

nin

i

”me”, genitive nín ”my”, dative anim or enni ”to me, for me”.

-n

1st sg

1st sg. pron. suff. #I. Q. -n(ye). See paradigm PE17:132.

a tiro nin, fanuilos

o guard me, Elbereth

enni

pronoun. to me

guren bêd enni

my heart tells me

im

pronoun. I

In late writings (see esp. VT/47:37-38), Tolkien reinterpreted this form as a reflexive pronoun (= "self").

im

1st sg

_ 1st sg. pron. _emphatic separate nominative 'I, I myself'. O.Q. imne. Tolkien notes that "Im unclear if m of sg. 1 or reflexive singular" (PE17:41). Im Narvi hain echant 'I Narvi made them'. >> ech, est, minno

nindalf

place name. Wetwang

The fens below the falls of Rauros, translated “Wetwang” (LotR/373). This name is a combination of nîn “wet” and the lenited form of talf “flat field” (PE17/52, 61; RC/779).

Conceptual Development: In Lord of the Rings drafts from the 1940s, this region was first named N. Palath Nenui “Wetwang” (TI/268), soon revised to N. Nindalf (TI/281).

im

i

but as subject usually simply the ending -n, as in ónen ”

ni

pronoun. I

nin

to me, for me

nin pron. "to me, for me", dative of ni (FS, Nam). Sí man i yulma nin enquantuva? "Now who will refill the cup for me?" (Nam), nás mara nin *"it is good to me" = "I like it" (VT49:30), ecë nin carë sa* "it-is-open for me to do it" = "I can do it" (VT49:34). See also ninya**.

ni

pronoun. me, I

-n

suffix. I

-n(yë)

suffix. I

antanë ninna

*he gave (it) to me

ecuva nin carë sa nöa

I ‘may’ do that tomorrow, I have a chance of doing that [tomorrow]

ecë nin?

please, may I?

ecë nin care sa

I can do that

inyë

i, too

inyë emphatic independent 1st person sg. pronoun, "I" with emphasis, translated "I, too" in LR:61 (and, according to one reading of Tolkiens manuscript, in VT49:49).

ma varda enquantuva i yulma nin sí

will Varda now refill the cup for me?

nai nin híres

it may well chance for me to find it

ni

me

ni (1) 1st person sg. pron. "I" (according to PE17:68 also "me" as object), with long vowel (ní) when stressed (VT49:51), cf. ní nauva next to nauvan for "I will be" (VT49:19), the former wording emphasizing the pronoun. The pronoun ni represents the original stem-form (VT49:50). Dative nin "for me, to me" (Arct, Nam, RGEO:67, VT41:11/15). Compare the reflexive pronoun imni, imnë "myself" and the emphatic pronoun inyë, q.v. The ancient element ni is said to have implied, originally, "this by me, of my [?concern]" (VT49:37)

nás mára nin

I like it

ora nin

it warns me

orë nin caritas

I feel an urge/wish/desire to do it

orë nin caritas nó namin alasaila

I would like / feel moved to do so but judge it unwise

quenten tulil márië nin

I said: you come happily (for me)

quí(ta) la tuldes, nánë márië (nin)

[if he had not come], it was well to me (I was glad)

sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

who now shall refill the cup for me?

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sí man i yulma nin enquantuva?

now who the cup for me will refill?

The 8th phrase in the prose Namárië, which is essentially the same as its poetic version, differing only in its more literal translation.

This phrase is interesting in that it places the direct and indirect objects of the phrase (i yulma nin “the cup for me”) in between the subject (man “who”) and the verb (enquantuva “will refill”). This indicates that even in ordinary speech, the normal Quenya subject-verb-object word order was somewhat free, with objects able to appear in other positions.

tultauvas sa nin

he will send it to me

umbë nin i hríve nauva urra (si loa)

I have a feeling that winter will be bad (this year)

órenya quetë nin

my heart tells me

órenya quéta nin

my heart is saying to me

im

pronoun. I

hê

pronoun. me

This element appears to be the object pronoun “me” in the phrase bâ kitabdahê “don’t touch me” (SD/250). It is not clear whether it could also serve as a subject pronoun “I”. Thorsten Renk instead suggested (NBA/18) that -hê may be a marker for the imperative, and proposed the invented word Ad. !ni for “I, me”, a hypothetical cognate of Q. ni.

ni

pronoun. me, *I

óre nia pete nin

my heart tells me