Bored Games by Orchyd Constyne

Story notes: A/N 1: This little ficlet is a challenge that my husband and I gave ourselves. (I could *NOT* have done this on my own!) We decided a little while back that, to strengthen our Sindarin skills, we would write a story wherein the ENTIRE dialogue was in Sindarin. Well, I wrote the story today in English. Took about an hour. Translating the twenty-two sentences of spoken dialogue took us 5 1/2 hours. Frustrating does not even begin to describe this experience. I will *never* do it again. LOL

A/N 2: The fic is broken up into three sections. The first section will be the finished product in Sindarin. The second will be the direct translation of the Sindarin. The final section will be the original story I wrote this afternoon. The reason I am including the original story is to demonstrate how incomplete the language is. You can compare what I *wanted* to say with what I *had* to say because there simply weren't words for many of the statements I had. I refused to stoop to the so-called "Grelvish" for *any* word, nor did I mix in any Quenya or any other Elven language. This is pure Sindarin, beginning to end.

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