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Explore 135,273 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 135273 words, 49242 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5052 comments, finished 173328 flashcards and given 1506 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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tigla-

verb. to prick

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     ⸱     ⸱     ⸱          ⸱    :        ⸱           ⸱    :

Cormar nelde Eldatárin nu Tarmenel, Otso Herunaucoin hrótassen ondova, Nerte Fírimoin martaine nurunen, Er i More Herun mormahalmas hárala Morinóreva mí arda, már i fuinion. Er Corma ilyar turien ar tuvien te, Er Corma tucien ar mórisse nutien te Morinóreva mí arda, már i fuinion.

Findegil's translation of the notorious Ring verse. Findegil is the co-founder of the Mellonath Daeron, the language guild of the Forodrim, the Swedish Tolkien society.

Quenya [Translated by Findegil of the Mellonath Daeron; original LoTR] by Aldaleon

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