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 Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo

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Elen síla lúmenn' omentielvo.

A star shines on the hour of our meeting.



A Quenya greeting used by Frodo towards Gildor Inglorion and his company in The Lord of the Rings, book I, chapter 3. It is also given (without elision of the word lúmenna) in the essay Quendi and Eldar published in The War of the Jewels.



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