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From an original form Quendya, the language 'of the Quendi'

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Quenya

The ancient and noble tongue of the High Elves

"Utúlie'n aurë! Aiya Eldalië ar Atanatári, utúlie'n aurë!"
Fingon's war-cry beneath Ered Wethrin, in Quenya,
from Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad

The tongue of the High Elves in Valinor, the first to be recorded in writing. It was never widely used in Middle-earth except among the Noldor; the related Eldarin language, Sindarin, was more commonly spoken.

By the Third Age, Quenya had become, in Middle-earth, a language used only on formal or state occasions by the Elves and the descendants of the Númenóreans.


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