Quenya BackTattoo

Susanne is a 26 years old Norwegian and she is travelling between Oslo and Sydney. She intends to study Psychology.

She has read Lord of the Rings some years ago and of course, it fascinated her. She adores the Elves and when she saw the Tengwar she just felt so right to tattoo something with it.

The tattoo was made in January of 2003. A friend of her contacted Helge Fauskanger who helped her with the translation in Quenya and the transcription to Tengwar. The phrase is actually a quote from Gandalf in Lord of the Rings and for her it's a positive word of Wisdom, a reminder that even though things seems really dark, we just have to go on.

It was tattooed on her by a friend of her. The phrase was too long so her friend made it wavy. The process took 9 hours.

The tattoo is written in Quenya using Tengwar and reads:
Ilqua i elve turir, ná mana cililve care i lúmenen antaina elven.
'The only thing we can decide is what we want to do with the time that has been given to us'

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