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Dates
Awoke very approximately 4,300 years before the beginning of the First Age
Race
Elves
Pronunciation
que'ndee
Meaning
'Those that speak with voices'1
Other Names
Eldar2, The Elder Children of Ilúvatar, Elves, The Firstborn, The People of the Stars

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  • Updated 29 January 2006
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Quendi

‘Those who speak with voices’

QUENDI
All Elves
Eldar
Elves of the Great Journey		Avari
The Unwilling		Orcs?
Vanyar
Light Elves		Noldor
Deep-elves		Teleri
The Third Clan
Falmari
Teleri of Aman		Sindar
Grey-elves of Beleriand		Nandor
Followers of Lenwë		Silvan Elves
Others who left the Great Journey
Laiquendi
Green-elves of Ossiriand

Some of the more important divisions of the Quendi

'Those who speak with voices'; the name given by the Elves to their own kind while they still dwelt at Cuiviénen.


Notes

1

When the first Elves awoke, they thought themselves to be the only beings in Arda capable of speech, and so took this name for themselves.

2

Oromë originally named all the Elves Eldar (People of the Stars), though it later came to be used only of the Three Kindreds who began the Great Journey.

See also...

Elves

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