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Aesop 103: The Fox & the Crab

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Translation by VL user Chaered in 2025. First posted on VL, on 2025-12-17; not reviewed yet.

Missing words: Crab, sand mites.

Motto: Be content with your lot.

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No. Quenya Tengwar Means
1 Rusco ar ??    The Fox & the Crab
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3 ?? uma ressë yesentë feuya i litsë yassë marnë.           A Crab one day grew disgusted with the sands in which he lived.
Þantanes vanta salquenorenna ú anda hrestallo.        He decided to take a stroll to the meadow not far inland.
Tassë nai tuvúvanë matta arya epë singwa nén ar ?? ??.             There he would find better fare than briny water and sand mites.
San lolócanes i salquenorenna.      So off he crawled to the meadow.
Mal tassë maita Rusco tuntanë se, ar þenwassë mantë se aqua, nyelcë yo nappat.                  But there a hungry Fox spied him, and in a twinkling, ate him up, both shell and claw.
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5 Eques: Á tauva fasta tarmelyassë.        Motto: Be content with your lot.

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