Tere Ruive
Notes
This is original text by chaered, first posted on VL. The text is still under review, so NOT FINISHED YET! (Caveat lector.)
The purpose of writing this text was threefold: to practice my Quenya. to generate a little more copyright-unencumbered Quenya reading material, and to have less "unused" vocabulary in the dictionary files.
The idea is to have a small story, using basic Q/NQ and maybe some MQ, including a decent number of words not used in any sample text currently at my disposal. I pulled a list of "unused" words for the current Q/NQ/MQ dictionary lists in quettali, versus the public-and non-public samples, but excluding NQNT. The list has a lot of words for plants, animals, food, and landscape items; also a bunch around weather and fire.
I decided to write a story about a forest fire and people dealing with it. The text is intended to be released under Creative Commons license (free to use) once complete and reviewed. The unused-word list had about 3000 words. Obviously I can't put all of those into one short story, but the first draft covered 493 of them, about 1/6.
Note: This text does not use any "compound tense" forms, it only uses plain imperfect/perfect past to express the aspect.