Ai Ioringli Blenthir a·Dimin

Interlinear translation:

Eärendel up sail-PAST, from-shadow he-fare-PAST
from-edge dark of-night
flaming, brilliant go-PAST the-boat
the coast dim seep-PAST
and depart-PAST (pale) blue, silvern spark
from-sand last shadowy
on sunray-GEN-gleam, [a] flaming spark
he-left-PAST Land-GEN Western

Original:

Earendel arose where the shadow flows
At Ocean's silent brim;
Through the mouth of night as a ray of light
Where the shores are sheer and dim
He launched his bark like a silver spark
From the last and lonely sand:
Then on sunlit breath of day's fiery death
He sailed from Westerland.

Commentary:

This is an attempt to translate the beginning of the Eärendel poem from the Lost Tales II into Goldogrin. It has not turned out to be a very literal one, as I was trying to preserve the fixed metre and the exact rhyme scheme (which was quite a hard thing to do, Goldogrin is a bit clumsy and has a lot of endings).

In line 3 adjectives precede the noun they describe. This is in accord with GL:15 and can be explained here by a poetic word order, while the normal one would be: benc i-gantharol (ar) vlenc aini.

An audio-file with the reading can be found here (mp3, 311kB). Also check out a transcription into Gnomic Letters, a script for Goldogrin (PE15:108-110).

Comments are welcome here any time.
A special gratitude goes to Thorsten Renk, whos grammar article made my study of the GL much easier.

Glossary:

(inflected forms not asterisked)

blenthir 'most brilliant'; blenc 'brilliant' with the intensifying suffix -thir
gon-loma - initial l- is treated here as a vowel to distinguish it from gl- (see the remark on top of GL:9), so the ablative prefix go- becomes *gon-
ausi pa. t. of us-/usta- (GL:75, not listed under A)
auglon·tinc - This is a genitive compound mentioned at the bottom of GL:15, just like Turion·Tur (without lenition). I could not properly translate the metaphorical line, so I used this in order to enhance the 'poetical quality'.
cantharol - Due to the metre one has to stress it canthárol instead of the regular cántharol. This 'poetical license' is given in GL:13 ('Accentual note').
Dora - used in the context without prefix as an ablative, just like bara 'from home' (GL:10)