elvish

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She also cooked up the idea to improvise some Elvish, the fictional language of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novels.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

In 2015, a first edition of The Hobbit, with an inscription in Elvish written by Tolkien, sold at auction in London for £137,000.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2023

I'm sitting here with Elvish tattoos that go up and down my arms.

From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023

“Whether he knew Elvish or not, he just went for it, and that was the thing that put it over the top.”

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2023

The opening words were Elvish, like the writing on the arch: that seems certain.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien