⇱ Text index

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Link to the original source

Attribution

Translated into Quenya by Chaered in 2025. Reviewed for language by Dírheron, Lahtaro, Luinyelle, and Raccoon.

Notes

This is a translation of Frank Baum's 1900 book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz", which is now in the public domain.

Retrieved 2024-04-19, minus pictures, some of which are available through:

LINK .

Title: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Author: L. Frank Baum
Release Date: February, 1993 [eBook 55]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum

For the Esperanto version:
Translator: Donald Broadribb
Release date: February 22, 2010 [eBook Most recently updated: January 6, 2021
Language: Esperanto
Credits: Produced by Robert L. Read, James Gilmore, and Bruce Crisp

This is a (partially unreviewed) translation into Quenya by Chaered. More translation notes in /docs/wooznote.pdf on this site. Feedback is welcome!

Note: The author does not wish that this Quenya text be used to train AI.

Name translations: .
Aunt Em = Voriël Peramil (vor- + -iel, from Latin Aemilia meaning "industrious"
Boq = Poco "bag" (...of money)
Cowardly Lion = Úverya Rauro
Dorothy = Valanna (from realelvish.net)
Gayelette = Alanette (ala- + nette), from French Gaye (Lat. Gaius) "cheerful" + -ette (fem.) "little"
Glinda = Failissë (faila + -isse), from Welsh Glinda meaning "fair, good"
King Crow = Aran-Corco
Quelala = Cellala (cel(u)- + lala-), he is a source of laughter
Scarecrow = Corcurco (corco + urco), "bogeyman to the crows"
Tin Woodman = Latúcen Ornendur
Toto = Ilwë (il- + -we), from Latin toto meaning "all-encompassing"
Uncle Henry = Martar Peratar (Martar from realelvish.net)
Wicked Witch of the East = Olca Curuni Rómeno
Wicked Witch of the West = Olca Curuni Númeno
.
Kalidah = Calindat/ak- (cal(i)- + ndak), kills what is bright ?
Munchkin = Nauco
Quadling = Quatalino (quat- + lin-), they are plump and prosperous
Winged Monkey = Rámaitë Maimun
Winkie = Malwince (mal(-wa?)- "yellow" + -ince [diminutive])
.
Oz = Óþ
Great Oz = Túra Óþ
Wizard of Oz = Istyar Ózwa
Land of Oz = Nóre Óþwa; Óþnór/nor- (Óþ + -nór)
.
Emerald City = Laimarilinon (laimaril + -non)
Kansas = Hyarveästa (hyar- + vea + -sta), from Kanza-Sioux Kansas meaning "(south) wind people"; also play on Q veasta "comparison"
Omaha = Hansiriën (han- + sir- + -ien(d)), from Omaha-tribe Omaha meaning "(those who) go against the current"

Text

Chapters

• I. The Cyclone
• II. The Council with the Munchkins
• III. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
• IV. The Road Through the Forest
• V. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
• VI. The Cowardly Lion
• VII. The Journey to the Great Oz
• VIII. The Deadly Poppy Field
• IX. The Queen of the Field Mice
• X. The Guardian of the Gate
• XI. The Wonderful City of Oz
• XII. The Search for the Wicked Witch
• XIII. The Rescue
• XIV. The Winged Monkeys
• XV. The Discovery of Oz, the Terrible
• XVI. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
• XVII. How the Balloon Was Launched
• XVIII. Away to the South
• XIX. Attacked by the Fighting Trees
• XX. The Dainty China Country
• XXI. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
• XXII. The Country of the Quadlings
• XXIII. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish
• XXIV. Home Again

⇦ Prior / Next ⇨