Alasaila ná i quetie oholima palaresse coronincarwa.

Oif a feld mit berglech derzejlt men nit kain Ssojdess.(Proverb in Yidish from "Jiddish Das Abenteuer einer Sprache" by Salcia Landmann"

One does not tell secrets on a field with little mounds.

We didn't have any proverbs for a long time - I couldn't resist that one.

Amilya inse ua hanya i úpa hína.

Even its mother won't understand the dumb child.
("Néma gyereknek az anyja sem érti a szavát." Hungarian proverb)

meaning: if you don't speak about your problem nobody can help you

Polilye quíta tulya i rocco i nenna, mal ual pole niritas yule.

You can take the horse to the water but you can't make it drink.

Middle-Earth variant: You can take the Dwarf to the barber but you can't make him shave.

Ye exen latta unca, inse lantuva sanna.

(Biblical proverb)

This wikibook is to collect original1 and translated proverbs and idiomatic expressions in any of Tolkien's languages.

1. 1. i.e. conceived by Tolkien or Tolkienists