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

Explore 136,096 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 136,096 words, 49,318 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,244 comments, finished 179,431 flashcards and given 1,539 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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        ⸱                   ⸱             :                  ⸱       ⸱        ⸱       :   ⸱    ⸱         :      :  

Ai! be 'laur dannar i-lais nas sûl, în únodui be rovail gelaidh! În evíner be huith lim e-miruvor laich mi thaim roed thar Annûn, nuidh-rynd luin Elbereth mi iain in-elin tinnar nan i-'lîr i-'lim e-bereth aer. Sí man aphannatha i-ylf annin? As sí Elbereth Gilthoniel od Uilos orthant i-chem dîn be fain, ah il raid nulemmin mi lum; ah o thinnor môr caeda n'i-felf immen, a chîth tôb i-mîr e-Girgalad anuir. Sí 'wanwen, gwanwen o thrûn, Bar-Rodyn! Na-vaer! No i chirathol Mar-Rodyn. No i ell hiratha han. Na-vaer!

A Sindarin translation of a famous Quenya poem, Namárië.

Sindarin [LotR/377, RGEO/58] by Elaran

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