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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 135262 words, 49239 active glosses and 69 phrases. The community has posted 4804 comments, finished 164833 flashcards and given 1500 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.

Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 14 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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nauca

stunted

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     ⸱    ⸱    ⸱    ⸱    :      ⸱     ⸱        ⸱    ⸱    ⸱  :

Átaremma i ëa han Eä; na airë esselya, aranielya na tuluva, na carë indómelya, cemendë tambe Erumandë. Ámen anta síra ilaurëa massamma, ar ámen apsenë úcaremmar, sív’ emmë apsenet tien i úcarir emmen; álamë tulya úsahtienna, mal ámë etelehta ulcullo: násië.

Tolkien’s translation of the Lord's Prayer into Quenya

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