Early Quenya
nu karne vaiya
under red skies
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
Beware, older languages below! The languages below were invented during Tolkien's earlier period and should be used with caution. Remember to never, ever mix words from different languages!
nu karne vaiya
under red skies
The thirty first line of the Oilima Markirya poem (MC/214). The first word is the preposition nu “under” followed by the adjective karne “red” and the noun vaiya “sky”, translated loosely as “skies” in the English.
Decomposition: Broken into its constituent elements, this phrase would be:
> nu karne vaiya = “✱under red sky”