The Ardalambion is the MOST accurate for Elvish. I'm kicking myself for not remembering the webpage, but I saved every bit of Elvish thing they had on there and printed hundreds and hundreds of pages. I went through the etymologies and mírë translates to "precious one" which is the same as precious for this purpose. -nya means my. According to the teachings, certain things are put together as one word. -nya goes after the word to make it posessive of the one claiming posession.
Take Spanish. Neccessitar means Need. Neccessito means "I need," no need to say Yo neccessito because the -o at the end makes it possessive to the person speaking. (You need is neccesitas or nesseccitan, dpending on how well you know the person, Neccessita is She/he needs, and so one). It just depends on the end part. A lot of kids in my Spanish class couldn't grasp the concept.
Do you have access to any of the History of Middle Earth books? One of them has a good bit of the etymologies and Quenya. I'll look for which one tomorrow. I'm too tired tonight. Seeing this may help put your mind at ease as HoME was written off of Tolkien's actual notes rather that some sites which have very poor translations and some evn openly admit that it's just their own interpretation. Never use a site that says it's their own interpretation. You want Tolkien's interpretation, not theirs. Ardalambion (I though it was .com) even has essays written by Tolkienists debating the history of Quenya and the other languages, and HoME outright has a good deal of the etymologies right in it.
Sindarin wasn't as well developed as Quenya. So Quenya is most often used. It's the base for different Elvish languages, most of which are very similar, kind of like Spanish in Mexico and Spanish in Spain, or English in America and English in England. With a minimum of inconvenience, you can communicate with other speakers of the same language who come from a different country. But Sindarin just wasn't very developed. Enough Quenya is developed to hold conversations and such, kind of like Klingon (language of Star Trek, which I personally can't stand).
Before you get the tattoo, let me see if I can find the Ardalambion again or, if you can access the HoME edition I'll look up tomorrow, that will help you.
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