Elvish

Elvish
These dictionaries contain most the information available on the Elvish languages of J.R.R Tolkien's Middle Earth (including the eleven volumes of The History of Middle Earth). The main sources were: The Lord of the Rings (1965); The Silmarillion (1977); Unfinished Tales (1986); The Road Goes Ever On (1967); and Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critics. The vocabulary was greatly enhanced by the etymologies from The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987). There were some minor contributions from Christopher Tolkien's later books on the development of The Lord of the Rings and also from some miscellaneous sources like the Plotz letter. Earlier works were not used since they contained little information in relation to the languages as they finally appeared. There was some correspondence in a few cases with vocabulary and this was used only when there was reliable evidence that the forms were maintained to a later date. The dictionaries have about 1700 Quenya entries and 1500 Sindarin entries. The vocabulary is indexed from the English as well. Grammars are also included, though only as complete as can be reliably inferred. The alphabet from the Tengwar as applied to the particular language is included for completeness and to present the spelling conventions used in the dictionaries. This alphabet is only the most common and further information on writing can be obtained from the appendices of The Return of the King. The dictionaries, with few exceptions, do not contain proper names, but virtually all names appearing in the references can be translated from this dictionary, provided that care is taken to recognize sound changes (herein explained) and to correctly partition compound names.

Abbreviations

Quenya
Quenya Grammar
Quenya-English
English-Quenya
Quenya Samples

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