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Él elmendo

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Written by Christopher Gilson in 2026.

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Written by Christopher Gilson, in 2026, and granted permission to be provided here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (see LINK). First posted to VL on 2026-01-06; retrieved on 2026-03-07.

This was loosely inspired by an old Christmas carol. The English translation is literal, not intended to be sung.

Note: The author does not wish that this Quenya text be used to train AI.

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No.	Quenya	Tengwar	Means
1	Él elmendo morniës,	   	Star of wonder in darkness,
2	Él mimírim’ alcares,	   	star in very beautiful brilliance,
3	Elyë lenna men númenna	   	you proceed for us westward
4	Silmenen ilvaniës.	  	with starlight in perfection.

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