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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 135,663 words, 49,317 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,121 comments, finished 173,796 flashcards and given 1,522 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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quén

one, (some)body, person, individual, man or woman

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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.

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