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Explore 136,000 words and 72 phrases across Sindarin, Quenya, and more.

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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.

The dictionary contains 136,000 words, 49,318 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,215 comments, finished 178,601 flashcards and given 1,535 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.

Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 15 years ago. It is developed and maintained by Leonard (@parmaeldo). If you are a developer, you can follow the project on Github.

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slingē

noun. spider, spider’s web, cobweb

Middle Primitive Elvish Group: Eldamo. Published by

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       :

Lá karita i hamil mára alasaila ná.

An example of negation in Quenya, both as an independent adverb as well as a prefix.

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