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| | Sindarin and Quenya |
 | | Of all the tongues and dialects of the Elves two are found in The Lord of the Rings: the High-elven or Quenya, the Grey-elven or Sindarin. |
 | | The High-elven was an ancient tongue of Eldamar beyond the Sea, the first to be recordered in writing. |
 | | It was no longer a birth-tongue but had become, as it were, the Elven-Latin, still used for ceremony, and for the high matters of lore and song, by the High-Elves, who had returned in exile to Middle-earth at the end of the First Age. |
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