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elvish

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1. elvish - Adjective

2. elvish - Adjective Satellite

3. Elvish - Proper noun

Meaning

Pertaining to elves; implike; mischievous; weird; also, vacant; absent in demeanor. See Elfish.

Mysterious; also, foolish.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight Source: Internet

elvish tricks Source: Internet

Although the Elvish languages Sindarin and Quenya are the most famous and the most developed of the languages that Tolkien invented for his Secondary World, they are by no means the only ones. Source: Internet

After the publication of The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), the grammar rules of his major Elvish languages Quenya, Telerin and Sindarin went through very few changes (this is late Elvish 1954–1973). Source: Internet

Elvish scripts Most samples of the Elvish language done by Tolkien were written out with the Latin alphabet, but within the fiction Tolkien imagined many writing systems for his Elves. Source: Internet

Fictional philology There is a tradition of philological study of Elvish languages within the fiction. Source: Internet

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