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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.

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Parf Edhellen is and has been open source since its inception 14 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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aer

noun. sea

Sindarin Group: SINDICT. Published by

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     :

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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