Valarin

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Valarin is the ancient and powerful tongue of the Valar in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, known for its complex, alien-sounding phonology and limited use among other peoples of Arda.

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Label Occurrences
Valarin canonical 4

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf constructed language
fictional language
appearsIn The Lord of the Rings legendarium
The Peoples of Middle-earth
The Silmarillion
The War of the Jewels
belongsTo Tolkienian constructed languages
linked to: Elvish languages
contrastedWith Quenya
Sindarin
creator J. R. R. Tolkien
describedAs alien-sounding
ancient
powerful
developmentStage partially developed by Tolkien
etymologicalRole source of some divine and cosmological names
fictionalTimeDepth originates before the awakening of Elves and Men
hasCorpusSize very small
hasFeature long complex consonant clusters
non-Indo-European sound patterns
polysyllabic word forms
un-Elvish phonotactics
hasLoanwordsIn Quenya
Vanyarin Quenya
linked to: Quenya
hasProperty complex phonology
limited attestation
limited use among other peoples of Arda
influenced Quenya
Vanyarin dialect of Quenya
languageOf Maiar
Valar
linked to: The Valar
metaStatus one of Tolkien’s least-documented languages
partOf Arda
primaryRegionInFiction Aman
Valinor
rarelyUsedBy Elves
Men
scriptUsed Tengwar (reconstructed/secondary usage)
linked to: Tengwar
settingUniverse Middle-earth legendarium
spokenByCharacterClass Ainur
statusInLegendarium little-known to Elves
not commonly taught to the Children of Ilúvatar
sacred language of the Valar
usedBy Maiar
Valar
linked to: The Valar
usedFor names of Valar
some cosmological terms

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maia languageOf Valarin
The Valar languageUsed Valarin
Manwë language Valarin