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This website is dedicated to Tolkien's languages, with an emphasis on the elvish languages of his legendarium. Our dictionary consists of imported glosses from a variety of quality dictionaries, categorised and searchable by sense, conjugation and more. You can read more on our about page.

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Gloss of the hour

lasto

interjection. listen, *hark

Sindarin [LotR/0307] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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   ⸱    :

Ónen i-Estel Edain, ú-chebin estel anim.

The only known example of a linnod, a certain type of Sindarin poetry.

Sindarin [LotR, PE17/117, PE22/160] by Elaran

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