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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 135264 words, 49240 active glosses and 69 phrases. The community has posted 4887 comments, finished 167289 flashcards and given 1506 thanks. You can access more statistics by going to Contributors.
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.
Gloss of the hour
túrin
noun. king(dom)
Phrase of the day
nai lye hiruva airea amanar!
The letter was discovered in an auction on July 10th, 2019. The letter contains an ancient Elvish translation of 'Merry Christmas'.
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