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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.
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Parf Edhellen means “Elvish Book” in Sindarin, the noble language of elves and men. Tolkien was an amazing linguist who devised beautiful languages for his legendarium, and his Elvish languages are some of the most fully-realized fictional languages ever created.
The Elvish languages of Middle-earth, constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, include Quenya and Sindarin. These were the various languages spoken by the Elves of Middle-earth as they developed as a society throughout the Ages.
22 wrz 2024 · It includes nearly all of Tolkien’s published Elvish words, including the major vocabulary lists of Tolkien’s languages: The Etymologies, the Gnomish and Qenya Lexicons, “Words, Phrases and Passages from The Lord of the Rings ” (PE17) as well as The Lord of the Rings itself.
The meticulously constructed Elven languages, Sindarin and Quenya, however, pose a unique challenge: the absence of a consolidated dictionary. In contrast to some other fantasy works, like Eragon, where authors provide a convenient lexicon, Tolkien presents us with the Etymologies .
Elvish languages are constructed languages used by Elves in a fantasy setting. The philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien created the first of these languages, including Quenya and Sindarin.
The best known Quenya word for “grey” and an element in a number of names. It is also used as a noun Sinda “Grey Elf”. Tolkien sometimes used a variant form sindë for “grey” (WJ/384; PE17/141; Ety/THIN); see that entry for details.
