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Explore 135,671 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 135,671 words, 49,318 active glosses and 72 phrases. The community has posted 5,166 comments, finished 177,014 flashcards and given 1,531 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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píqa

adjective. bitter

Early Quenya [QL/074] Group: Eldamo. Published by

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      ()                      

á ricë amrícië! á carë (sí) ancárië! á cenë ancénië! á lirë amlírië! á menë amménië! á norë amnórië! á tirë antírië!

Plotz wanted to know how to express "try harder!" in Quenya. Tolkien demurred, and certainly gave it some thought!

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