Sindarin
Sign in to saveSindarin is one of the constructed languages devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the Elves.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Sindarin
- Language.creator
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Language.created
- 1915 to 1973
- Language.setting
- The fictional world of Middle-earth
- Language.fam1
- constructed languages
- Language.fam2
- artistic languages
- Language.fam3
- fictional languages
- Language.posteriori
- a priori language, but related to the other Elvish languages. Sindarin was influenced primarily by Welsh.
- Language.script
- Tengwar (mainly), Cirth
- Language.iso3
- sjn
- Language.linglist
- sjn
- Language.glotto
- sind1281
- Language.notice
- IPA
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Article
35 sectionsContents
- Two timelines
- External<!--to match text above--> timeline
- Goldogrin and other early languages
- Noldorin
- From Noldorin and Welsh
- Internal<!--to match text above--> timeline
- Dialects
- Doriathrin
- Falathrin
- North Sindarin
- Noldorin Sindarin
- In the Second and Third Age
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Orthographic conventions
- Vowels
- Monophthongs
- Diphthongs
- Grammar
- Nouns
- Plural forms
- Initial consonant mutations
- Mutations found in Noldorin
- Mutations found in Salo's grammar
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Basic verbs
- Vocabulary
- Numerals
- Scholarship and fandom
- References
- Primary
- Secondary
- Sources
- External links
Sindarin is one of the constructed languages devised by J. R. R. Tolkien for use in his fantasy stories set in Arda, primarily in Middle-earth. Sindarin is one of the many languages spoken by the Elves.
The word is Quenya for Grey-elven, since it was the language of the Grey Elves of Beleriand. These were Elves of the Third Clan who remained behind in Beleriand after the Great Journey. Their language became estranged from that of their kin who sailed over the sea. Sindarin derives from an earlier language called Common Telerin, which evolved from Common Eldarin, the tongue of the Eldar before their divisions, e.g., those Elves who decided to follow the Vala Oromë and undertook the Great March to Valinor. Even before that the Eldar Elves spoke the original speech of all Elves, or Primitive Quendian.