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

Explore 135,663 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 135663 words, 49317 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5069 comments, finished 173506 flashcards and given 1508 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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quámëa

sick

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kadô Zigûrun zabathân unakkha Êruhînim dubdam ugru-dalad Ar-Pharazônun azaggara Avalôiyada Bârim an-Adûn yurahtam dâira sâibêth-mâ Êruvô azrîya du-phursâ akhâsada Anadûnê zîrân hikalba bawîba dulgî balîk hazad an-Nimruzîr azûlada agannâlô burôda nênud zâira nênud adûn izindi batân tâidô ayadda îdô katha batîna lôkhî êphalak îdô Yôzâyan êphal êphalak îdô hi-Akallabêth

The Lament of Akallabêth is the only Adûnaic text that Tolkien composed. This version includes the VT24 Final "manuscript" version., presented on Eldamo.

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