Translated into Quenya by Chaered in 2025.
The Ugly Duckling (Den grimme ælling), by Hans Christian Andersen (1844). (Danish: Den grimme Ælling)
Ongoing translation project by Chaered, first posted on VL. Not reviewed by others. English text 3593 words, Quenya 2825, Danish original 3358.
I started out with a different English translation, but looking at the Danish original it seemed a very free translation. The one below by M.R. James from 1930 seems to stick much closer to the original. The Quenya translation sometimes follows the Danish original more closely than the English translation given here.
Quenya text provided here by Chaered under the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, with the provision that the author does not permit this Quenya text to be used to train AI.
This text is also available at the Elvish composition archive.
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