I Naitie
Notes
Written by Vyacheslav Stepanov, in 2025, provided here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Retrieved on 2025-12-10.
Comment
This short poem (inspired by the first stanza of La Vojo by L.L. Zamenhof) reflects the author’s view (substantiated in his article “It Always Had Been a Vast Globe...”) that the Round World cosmology was the final cosmological concept adhered to by Tolkien in his late writings.
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| No. | Quenya | Tengwar | Means |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Naitië | | The Truth |
| 2 | |||
| 3 | Ter Melcova hísië alca i arma | | Through the mist of Melko glitters the ray of sunlight, |
| 4 | Na yava nahámë meninyë. | | Towards whose call I go. |
| 5 | Etengwiën ilya Arcastaro parma | | I have read every Tolkien’s book, |
| 6 | Ar naitië sinan ceninyë. | | And now I see the truth. |
| 7 | Lá sostar ni quetiër lustë ve vaiwi, | | I am not afraid of sayings void as winds, |
| 8 | Hya ñolyali raicë, hya liëvë yaiwi, | | Nor wrong teachings, nor the mockings of people, |
| 9 | An saviënyassë tarinyë ansorna | | For I stand very steadfast in my belief |
| 10 | I Ambar yestallo né corna. | | That the Earth was round from the beginning. |
Extra
1. The name Melko rather than Melkor is used because its possessive form fits the rhytm of the poem better, and it is still valid in the late concept according to the Glossary to the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth (MR/350).
2. The word naitië is used here as a noun (“truth”) rather than an adverb (cf. caraitië, coloitië < caraitë, coloitë and statements in PE17/58–9 about common homonymy of abstract nouns and adverbs in -ië).