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Explore 135,271 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 135271 words, 49241 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5030 comments, finished 173244 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 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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uf(f)edhin

noun/adjective. outlaw, outcast; one who changes his clan and goes to a new kinship

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Aerlinn in Edhil o Imladris

The Elvish title of the piece otherwise known as A Elbereth Gilthoniel.

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