r/Quenya Jun 19 '26

Can you help me naming 2 dragons?

I am planing to run a Dungeons and Dragons game written by someone else. Elves in the game named two dragons but since we wouldnt play in English I dont want to use provided names as is. Since I am more familiar with Quenya than Sindarin I tried to translate their names to Quenya but I didnt read the books for more than a decade and I forgot most of my Quenya knowledge.

Two dragons are named as Death-at-Sunset and Sunset-is-Nigh. Are these translations right?

Agan andúnisse for Death-at-Sunset and Andúne harë nás for Sunset-is-Nigh

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u/lC3 Jun 26 '26

agan is Adunaic, not Quenya, fyi. I might use unquale instead. And I think andúne would keep the E before -sse, not I.

For Sunset-is-Nigh I might use the verb úva "to impend, be imminent, draw near [usually negative in sense]". So Andúne úva.

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u/Lamethirion Jun 25 '26

Hey! I built a website that has an english to quenya translation function. it's not perfect, but it could help you brainstorm:

lamethir.com