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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 76083 words, 42199 active glosses and 55 phrases. The community has posted 867 comments, finished 32770 flashcards and given 267 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.

Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 8 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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Helevorn
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な~C aD7T1E8 `Cな#8lEj# a~V 5.DyE -

Lá karitas alasaila ké nauva.

Cé is used where the hypothetical is 'unreal' in the sense that it is the opposite of what the speaker is advising.

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