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Trying to translate "keep it secret – keep it safe" to #Latin, which I know is tricksy. Looking at verbs like servare and conservare, and adjectives for "safe" like tutus/salvus/securus...??

If you can help, I will write your phrase of choice in Tengwar (Elvish script)! Here's a sample of one way I write it – though I'll do straight lines 😅
I'll write them on a livestream and link image files for you.

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Notebook page with deep blue-green Elvish script, visibly crooked, with a bottle of ink (Sailor Shikiori – Yamadori) and a calligraphy dip pen. The poem reads: A Elbereth Gilthoniel Silivren penna míriel O menel aglar elenath Gilthoniel, a Elbereth! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land, beneath the trees The starlight on the Western seas. (I've probably left out some accents)
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securus is more like securely, but I've seen tutus(tutum) used like that before, I think that's a good bet!
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