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

Explore 135,273 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 135273 words, 49242 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5054 comments, finished 173389 flashcards and given 1506 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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tant(il)a

noun. harp

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    ⸱    ⸱    ⸱      :    ⸱   ⸱    ⸱      :    ⸱   ⸱     ⸱      ⸱        ⸱    ⸱    ⸱          ⸱    ⸱    ⸱    ⸱   

Alvë nar alassië Sí, lan vinyë nalvë; Epë vinyarë felminqua, Epë yárië nurrinqua Cemenell’ auvalvë. Coivielva þenna ná, Rongo teluvassa, Mal vanessë lambion, Arcastarwa lambion Anta ven alassë. Aiya Mar Istarion, Aiya Lambengolmor, Aiya Quentari ar Parmor, Ill’ i lorur imbi parmar, Len suilantan holmo! Alvë hantar Aratain, I Andúnë pella, Alvë hantar Ataren, Yeva saila indonen Eleni pepellar! Nai amanya ólië, Nai amanya ñolmar, Nai amanya otornassë, Nai amálië alassë, Vinyë Lambengolmor!

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