Parf Edhellen

About Parf Edhellen

The collaborative dictionary dedicated to the the linguistic world of Tolkien's. Presently in beta-stage.

Searching

Use the search-box to browse the dictionaries contents. As you type, suggestions are made continously based on your enquiry. It is possible to use wildcards to further enhance the quality of these suggestions.

Special characters are normalized, which means that you that the search query mir will match mîr, mírë, miril and so forth.

A result cap is applied depending on the preciseness of your query. More exact queries are believed to yield more granular results, consequently resulting in a wider more generous result cap. This feature is chiefly in place to limit excessive queries that might impede performance.

The preciseness of your query is calculated according to the follow equation:
the length of the input string without modifiers and spacing × 200.

Word-end search

This feature enables you to search for words with matching word ending. This is useful for finding rhymes or similar words.

Authentication

Parf Edhellen does not maintain its own authentication database. Instead, it uses OpenID for account management. By logging in using OpenID, no personal information is compromised and your account names as well as passwords are maintained independently by each authentication provider. What this site however maintains is an unique ID that identifies your authenticated account.

The first time you log in, you will be asked to specify an alias. This alias will be your public face and used for revision management.

Contributing

The gist of this website is the strength of aggregated expertise. Your contributions are encouraged, but please remember to always publish references backing up your claims. Moderators reserve the rights to emend and delete content.

There are two ways to contribute: by adding words and by adding glosses. Each word might have multiple glosses in many languages.

Syntax:
[[maen]] maen
_mae_ mae
~minno~ minno
`idhron` idhron
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Credits & Sources

The following excellent word lists have been successfully imported.

Quettaparma Quenyallo

The best Quenya lexicon maintained by Helge Fauskanger, presented alongside his excellent course work material on Ardalambion.

Parviphith

Sindarin lexicon maintained by Helge Fauskanger.

Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary

A community dictionary maintained by the SinDict community that has unfortunately stagnated, but is still very good.

Parma Eldalamberon 17 Sindarin Corpus

A big thank-you to David Giraudeau for contributing with his compilation of Sindarin words from Parma Eldalamberon 17. You can find the original over here.

Mellonath Daeron

Mellonath Daeron's contribution of glossaries from Parma Eldalamberon 18 and 19, and their continuous feedback and encouragement.

Tolkiendil Compound Sindarin Names

Tolkiendil provides a consolidated list of Sindarin names examined and translated. Parf Edhellen is happy to house their excellent work.

Thank you for your excellent work! It is the quintessence of Parf Edhellen's success!

Tengwar 1Rx#6

It's possible to write tengwar on elfdict by use of a technology called “CSS3 webfonts”. The tengwar that you’ll find scattered about this website have been either added by a contributor or, more commonly, automatically transcribed for Sindarin and Noldorin. The open-source library tengwarjs by Kris Kowal enables us to transcribe at runtime, which means that generated the tengwar markup is not associated with the source. The quality of the transcription might vary and all transcribed words are marked with a link to this note.