Mae govannen!

Well met! You have found an elvish book, Parf Edhellen, dedicated to the fictional languages in Tolkien's legendarium.


About the website

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.

The dictionary contains 128713 words, 47381 active glosses and 69 phrases. The community has posted 4704 comments, finished 162128 flashcards and given 1467 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.

Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 14 years ago. It is developed and maintained by Leonard (@parmaeldo). If you are a developer, you can follow the project on Github.

Gloss of the hour

tañkas-

verb. become firm, settle down

Primitive elvish [PE 22:135] Group: Mellonath Daeron. Published by

Learn more


Phrase of the day

         

Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!

Gandalf's words of power against the cold, and the enemies.

Sindarin [LotR, HoME-VII, PE17] by Elaran

Learn more