Saer i-naeth e-gurth, ha ú-vaer cuino pen meleth or nírnaeth uluithiad.

Bitter is the biting of death, no better to live loveless with quenchless tears.


Literally:

Bitter [is] the-biting of-death, it [is] not-good to-live without love and/(with?) tears unquenchable.

Sources:

1) Hiswelókë's Sindarin-English Dictionary: "Strict" Sindarin & Noldorin Alphabetical and Analogical Dictionaries.

2) Thorsten Renk's Pedin Edhellen, a Sindarin-Course, Version 3.05

Original Sindarin/English poetry inspired by Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, lines 750-71: Once to die is better than length of days in sorrow without end.