Aesop 091: The Goose & the Golden Egg
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Translation by VL user Chaered in 2025. First posted on VL, on 2025-12-09; reviewed by VL user Laiqua.
Note: The author does not wish that this Quenya text be used to train AI.
Motto: Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.
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【1】 I ván ar i maltaina ohtë
► The Goose & the Golden Egg
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【3】 Engë Restassë Laulemo ye aunë i arelmendeä ván ye polë a-sana, pan ilaurë yá tulles i haustanna, i ván nostaniénë vanima, rilya, maltaina ohtë.
► There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.
【4】 I Restassë Laulemo collë i ohti mancanómenna ar ron yesentë ola herenya.
► The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich.
¶ Mal apa ú anda lúmë, róves cólema pá i ván, pan hye antanë sen rië er maltaina ohtë ilya ressë.
► But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.
¶ Únes ola herenya faren lintië.
► He was not getting rich fast enough.
【5】 Tá uma ressë, epeni telyanes notita telperya, tenna tullë sen i polles hosta ilyë maltainë ohti imallumë nahtalénen i ván ar ciriénen hye láta.
► Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open.
¶ Mal yá i carda nánë carina, únes tuvë erinqua maltaina ohtë, ar mírë ványa nánë qualin.
► But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.
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【7】 Eques: Intë i öar laca yestantë amba, ar san rovintë ilqua ya öaltë.
► Motto: Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.