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


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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 124222 words, 47072 active glosses and 68 phrases. The community has posted 3454 comments, finished 130722 flashcards and given 1074 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.

Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 12 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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Narquelië

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Phrase of the day

  ⸱    ⸱    ⸱      :    ⸱    ⸱   ⸱   :

Norolinda pirucendëa, lendë tanna Nieliccilis, sana wendë nieninquëa, yan i wilyar antar miquelis. I·oromandi tanna lendë, ar wingildi wilwarindië, Losselië telerinwa, táli lantalasselingië.

A beautiful poem from Tolkien's “A Secret Vice.”

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