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Ireth

Ireth

Mythic Scribe
Alyssa said:
Come on. You can't do that to us. How can you leave us hanging like that?
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Wonder no more! Here are the English lyrics I used, then the verses translated into Sindarin, and then a back-translation into English so you can see how I was forced to tweak things. XD It's not perfect; I'm not 100% sure how some of the words are meant to be lenited, and I had to fudge the rhymes a wee bit, but I like how it turned out!

ENGLISH
O come, o come, Emmanuel
To free your captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, thou Dayspring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh.
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And Death's dark shadow put to flight.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, come, thou Lord of Might
Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height
In ancient times did give the law
In clouded majesty an awe.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

SINDARIN
Tolo, Erunaven, tolo,
Lín Eruvaethant leithio,
Erib ar edlenn; nîr lantar
An Eruion thio darar.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, Aureithel, e Menel
A na toled lín tegi gell
Risto i fân o fuin dhem
A guruthos natha edlenn.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, tolo, le Brannon Tú
I ‘waith lín erin Dôl Eru
Anann io annant bith conui
Ne balan a ne chlaur fanui.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

ENGLISH (LITERAL)
Come, Emmanuel, come,
Your Israel to release,
Lonely and exiled; tears fall
For God’s Son to appear they wait.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, Day-spring, out of heaven
And by your coming bring joy
Cleave the clouds of gloomy night
And the shadow of death will be exiled.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, come, you Lord of Might
Who to your people on the Mountain of God
Long ago gave commanding words
In power and in cloudy glory
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!
 
Nimue

Nimue

Dark Lord
I love it, Ireth. The only thing that would make it better is a recording of you singing it, heheheh

I just put all my MS challenge short stories in my portfolio (WHICH OTHER PEOPLE SHOULD ALSO DO SO I CAN READ YOUR OLD STORIES HINT HINT HINT) and I noticed something of a trend:

Challenge word count: 1000-2000 words.

Me: This story could be about anything, but it needs to be brief without a lot of build-up. Other than that, the sky's the limit.

Challenge word count 5000+ words.

Me:
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Chessie

Istari
I posted one of my lame-o stories in the portfolio a while back. A failure of a story, really. I have many more of those lol.

@Nimue, your story is on my TBR list. You know I'm a sucker for your style, baby. *wink*
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
Ireth said:
Wonder no more! Here are the English lyrics I used, then the verses translated into Sindarin, and then a back-translation into English so you can see how I was forced to tweak things. XD It's not perfect; I'm not 100% sure how some of the words are meant to be lenited, and I had to fudge the rhymes a wee bit, but I like how it turned out!

ENGLISH
O come, o come, Emmanuel
To free your captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, thou Dayspring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh.
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And Death's dark shadow put to flight.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, come, thou Lord of Might
Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height
In ancient times did give the law
In clouded majesty an awe.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

SINDARIN
Tolo, Erunaven, tolo,
Lín Eruvaethant leithio,
Erib ar edlenn; nîr lantar
An Eruion thio darar.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, Aureithel, e Menel
A na toled lín tegi gell
Risto i fân o fuin dhem
A guruthos natha edlenn.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, tolo, le Brannon Tú
I ‘waith lín erin Dôl Eru
Anann io annant bith conui
Ne balan a ne chlaur fanui.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

ENGLISH (LITERAL)
Come, Emmanuel, come,
Your Israel to release,
Lonely and exiled; tears fall
For God’s Son to appear they wait.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, Day-spring, out of heaven
And by your coming bring joy
Cleave the clouds of gloomy night
And the shadow of death will be exiled.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, come, you Lord of Might
Who to your people on the Mountain of God
Long ago gave commanding words
In power and in cloudy glory
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!
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This is the best thing ever.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
I hate it when I post hysterical/overdramatic posts while I'm panicking over something and not in my right mind and then after I've calmed down reread and realize I've exposed everyone (and, I kind of want you guys to like me!) to my hysterics yet again. I always feel like I have to apologize but again it doesn't feel like it fixes anything to apologize.

Calmed down...Ok, I haven't been very calm. When there's something going wrong with my WIP I feel like I HAVE to fix it ASAP or else everything is out of control and it's all a mess I can't fix. Having anything go wrong is extremely scary to me and I don't really know how to take a deep breath and walk away. I obsess and obsess and obsess.

I...wish I wasn't like this.
 
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Ireth

Ireth

Mythic Scribe
DragonOfTheAerie said:
I hate it when I post hysterical/overdramatic posts while I'm panicking over something and not in my right mind and then after I've calmed down reread and realize I've exposed everyone (and, I kind of want you guys to like me!) to my hysterics yet again. I always feel like I have to apologize but again it doesn't feel like it fixes anything to apologize.

Calmed down...Ok, I haven't been very calm. When there's something going wrong with my WIP I feel like I HAVE to fix it ASAP or else everything is out of control and it's all a mess I can't fix. Having anything go wrong is extremely scary to me and I don't really know how to take a deep breath and walk away. I obsess and obsess and obsess.

I...wish I wasn't like this.
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*sends hugs through the interweb*
 
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Heliotrope

Staff
Article Team
Ireth said:
Wonder no more! Here are the English lyrics I used, then the verses translated into Sindarin, and then a back-translation into English so you can see how I was forced to tweak things. XD It's not perfect; I'm not 100% sure how some of the words are meant to be lenited, and I had to fudge the rhymes a wee bit, but I like how it turned out!

ENGLISH
O come, o come, Emmanuel
To free your captive Israel
That mourns in lonely exile here
Until the Son of God appear.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, thou Dayspring from on high
And cheer us by thy drawing nigh.
Disperse the gloomy clouds of night
And Death's dark shadow put to flight.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

O come, come, thou Lord of Might
Who to thy tribes on Sinai's height
In ancient times did give the law
In clouded majesty an awe.
Rejoice, rejoice! Emmanuel
Shall come to thee, O Israel!

SINDARIN
Tolo, Erunaven, tolo,
Lín Eruvaethant leithio,
Erib ar edlenn; nîr lantar
An Eruion thio darar.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, Aureithel, e Menel
A na toled lín tegi gell
Risto i fân o fuin dhem
A guruthos natha edlenn.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

Tolo, tolo, le Brannon Tú
I ‘waith lín erin Dôl Eru
Anann io annant bith conui
Ne balan a ne chlaur fanui.
Eruvaethant, gell ‘erithach;
Erunaven le telitha!

ENGLISH (LITERAL)
Come, Emmanuel, come,
Your Israel to release,
Lonely and exiled; tears fall
For God’s Son to appear they wait.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, Day-spring, out of heaven
And by your coming bring joy
Cleave the clouds of gloomy night
And the shadow of death will be exiled.
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!

Come, come, you Lord of Might
Who to your people on the Mountain of God
Long ago gave commanding words
In power and in cloudy glory
Israel, you will have joy;
Emmanuel will come to you!
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Ireth, this was always my favourite carol. So haunting.lets all listen to Enya and imagine Ireth's lyrics:

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHh3nMMu-I[/video]
 
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Thomas Laszlo

Mystagogue
Random thought today: Relationships don't suck, it's the bad days, unsolved arguments, and awkward stares after a break up that suck.





Oddly enough I find my friends continue to go back and do the same thing over, and over, and over again. I recently broke up with my girlfriend of almost eight months which is about seven and a half months longer than average for Lebanon Missouri, and I can barely walk into the band room without people staring at me STILL and it's been four days:/ It was a good relationship but I felt like she was a "push everything out the door" gal and I'm more of a "hey let's talk and we'll decide on [insert subject] because I'm dating you because your a potential wife for me" and so neither of us were gonna change our differing basic values. She didn't like hearing me say that though XD


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NaNoWriMo WIP!
 
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ThinkerX

Valar Lord
My will to continue with the WIP is fast failing. It wasn't too strong to start with, when I began it for NaNo. But I kept at it anyhow, and topped 37000 words by the time NaNo ended. Told myself I'd try for a thousand words a day for a couple weeks, see if I couldn't finish it. After all, I was getting into the stuff I considered interesting - the philosophical debate behind the whole story. That only sort of worked. Yes, I got in a few good days by my standards. But most days, I didn't. It didn't help that work turned into a real bear.

Today, I sat down with the intent of finishing Chapter 15. Managed 800 words and just stopped. Not exactly cause for optimism.

New plan:

Work on this tale for the next week. Maybe I can crank out a couple more chapters, get things to the point just before the grand climax. Then finish out with stubs and set it aside for a few weeks. A break seems to be in order.
 
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Thomas Laszlo

Mystagogue
Well, I love when exes get mad at you for your reason for the breakup and then prove you right two days in a row right afterwardsXD


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NaNoWriMo WIP!
 
Tom

Tom

Istari
New Skyrim character! He's a Bosmer thief who was orphaned in Riften and "adopted" by the Thieves' Guild. I gave him the smallest build but he's down to fight anyone. I started his career by stealing all of the cheese from the inn in Riverwood.
 
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Chessie

Istari
It's been weeks since I've been able to play Skyrim Remastered. There's some sort of issue going on with game drivers not being installed properly something or the other...and Steam is being complicated and difficult to work with. *SIGH* Which sucks because I was thoroughly enjoying the game that worked once then stopped functioning.

I suppose it's ok. I rather play Fallout anyway.
 
Banten

Banten

Shadow Lord
Tom Nimenai said:
New Skyrim character! He's a Bosmer thief who was orphaned in Riften and "adopted" by the Thieves' Guild. I gave him the smallest build but he's down to fight anyone. I started his career by stealing all of the cheese from the inn in Riverwood.
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Fear The Stilton Swindler. The Emmental Criminal. The Gouda Gangster. The Roquefort Robber. The Parmezan Pirate. The Cheddar Cheat. The Manchego Marauder. The Mozerella Mobster. The Sbrinz Prince. The Edam Imam. The Colby Colonel. The Brie Brigand. The Burrata Buccaneer. The Quark Nark. The Limburger Pilferer.

I think I'm done now.
 
DragonOfTheAerie

DragonOfTheAerie

Istari
Banten said:
Fear The Stilton Swindler. The Emmental Criminal. The Gouda Gangster. The Roquefort Robber. The Parmezan Pirate. The Cheddar Cheat. The Manchego Marauder. The Mozerella Mobster. The Sbrinz Prince. The Edam Imam. The Colby Colonel. The Brie Brigand. The Burrata Buccaneer. The Quark Nark. The Limburger Pilferer.

I think I'm done now.
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I...I don't even know an appropriate response. O_O
 
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