Mae govannen!
Well met! You have found an elvish book, Parf Edhellen, dedicated to the fictional languages in Tolkien's legendarium.
About the website
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 128646 words, 47410 active glosses and 69 phrases. The community has posted 4143 comments, finished 144355 flashcards and given 1226 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.
Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 13 years ago. It is developed and maintained by Leonard (@parmaeldo). If you are a developer, you can follow the project on Github.
Gloss of the hour
thilion
glistening silver
Phrase of the day
⸱ ⸱ ⸱
A Elentári Tintallë tyelpë pendas mírilya menelo alcar elerrimbë! Hairanna palan-tírienwa endórellon aldarembinë, Fanoiolossë, lyé liruvan han ëar, si han ëaron!
A Quenya translation of the hymn [[*A Elbereth Gilthoniel*]], with an attempt to maintain the original iambic meter.
Community activity
The 10 most recent activities.
- Rínor posted in Colors in Sindarin.
- Tolchalad posted in Colors in Sindarin.
- Aldaleon posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Rínor posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Ju trying to learn sindarin 🥲 posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Rínor posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Ju trying to learn sindarin 🥲 posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Rínor posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Ju trying to learn sindarin 🥲 posted in do you know any full coures of Sindarin.
- Rínor posted in Syllabic [s] in elvish languages.