Meanings
- fantasyThe ancestor language of Elvish.First known use 20th c.
Tolkien has even created an Old Elvish language, in which some of the verse that his characters recite is written.
1983, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press, volume 35, numbers 14–26, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, page 142 more examples
She closed her eyes and chanted in Old Elvish, the sounds harsh to the modern ear, but in Eorla’s voice, it sounded both soft and mournful.
2010 January 26, Mark Del Franco, Unperfect Souls, Penguin, →ISBN, page 261Leesil had made the hide with Belaskian letters and short common words to replace the one Wynn had written up in the Old Elvish of the an’Cróan.
2012 December 31, Barb Hendee, J.C. Hendee, “fourteen”, in The Dog in the Dark, Penguin, →ISBN, page 265
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Old Elvish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Old%20Elvish
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