Mae govannen!

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

Explore 136,022 words and 72 phrases across Sindarin, Quenya, and more.

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 136,022 words, 49,318 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,226 comments, finished 178,813 flashcards and given 1,536 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.

Support the site

If you enjoy Parf Edhellen and would like to chip in, you can buy me a coffee. Thank you!

Buy me a coffee

Gloss of the hour

arod

adjective. noble

Sindarin [(PE17 Sindarin Corpus) PE17:147] < _arāta_. Group: Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus. Published by

Learn more

Phrase of the day

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

Lá karita i hamil mára alasaila ná.

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

Learn more

Popular searches

Community activity

The 15 most recent activities.