Nieninque “Snowdrop”
A poem from Tolkien's “A Secret Vice.”
"Norolinda pirucendëa,
lendë tanna Nieliccilis,
sana wendë nieninquëa,
yan i wilyar antar miquelis.
I·oromandi tanna lendë,
ar wingildi wilwarindië,
Losselië telerinwa,
táli lantalasselingië."
In 1931, Tolkien held a conference about his creation of languages, claiming that his rather unusual hobby was a peculiar form of art. His talk was later published in the collection The Monsters and the Critics with the title “A Secret Vice.” Tolkien produced several poems as examples, and Nieninque “Snowdrop” is one of these poems.