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Explore 135,941 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 135,941 words, 49,318 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,207 comments, finished 178,416 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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yābā̆-sūka

noun. fruit drink, cider

Middle Primitive Elvish [TMME/053] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan díriel o galadhremmin ennorath. Fanuilos le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon.

As sung by the elves in Rivendell. It's an iambic tetrameter hymn, and one of the longest texts in sindarin.

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