Quendi
Quick Facts
| Dates: | Awoke very approximately 4,300 years before the beginning of the First Age |
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| Race: | Elves |
| Pronunciation: | que'ndi |
| Meaning: | 'Those that speak with voices'1 |
| Other Names: | Eldar2, Elven-folk, Elves, Fair Folk, The Firstborn, The People of the Stars |
‘Those who speak with voices’
| Quendi All Elves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Eldar Elves that set out for Valinor | Elves that remained in the east | Orcs? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Light Elves | Noldor Deep-elves | Sea-elves | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some of the more important divisions of the Quendi
'Those who speak with voices'; the name given by the Elves to their own kind soon after they had awakened.
Footnotes
| 1 | When the first Elves awoke, they thought themselves to be the only beings capable of speech, and so took this name for themselves. |
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| 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 journey into the West. |
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