Can someone translate Believe in Yourself into Elvish, I want it for my first tattoo and all I can find is believe in love. I would like it in Elvin script, any dialect is fine, and I can't find a translator anywhere, any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
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Due to the incompleteness of Tolkien's Elven languages it would be safer to go with a simple transcription of the English words in Tolkien's Tengwar (Elven script).
The only attested verb meaning "believe" would be Quenya (High-Elven) sav-. But that means "believe (that statements, reports, traditions, etc. are) true, accept as fact”, so it may not be such a good choice for this phrase.
You could rephrase however:
"á harya astar intyen"
(have faith for yourself)
Vocabulary:
á - imperative particle; followed by infinitive
harya- - possess, have; inf. harya
astar - faith, loyalty (not belief)
intye - yourself
-n - for, to; dative case ending
Dictionaries:
http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/Quettaparma.pdf
http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/telechargements/queny...
Grammar: http://folk.uib.no/hnohf/quenya.htm
For the verb conjugation see:
http://www.ambar-eldaron.com/telechargements/Queny...
Both the English phrase and the Quenya translation written in Tengwar:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32039090@N02/82766042...
You can check the letters of the English words with:
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/teng_general_english.ht...
or http://www.acondia.com/fonts/tengwar/info/english....
For Quenya see:
http://at.mansbjorkman.net/teng_quenya.htm
or http://www.acondia.com/fonts/tengwar/info/quenya.h...
If you have any questions about this, feel free to send me a message.