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| − | In an older version of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s conception of the [[Languages]] of [[Middle-earth]] as expounded in the ''[[Lhammas]]'', '''Oromëan''' is the language phylum to which all [[Elvish]] languages, such as [[Quenya]] and [[Sindarin]], belong. It is there contrasted with [[Aulëan]], the language phylum of [[Khuzdul]], the language of the [[Dwarves]].
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| − | The Oromëan languages are so named because their ancestral language supposedly derives from the speech of [[Oromë]], the [[Valar|Vala]] of the Forest, who was the first of the Valar to meet the [[Elves]] at [[Cuiviénen]] in [[Middle-earth]].
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| − | This concept was later dropped.
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Revision as of 02:45, 22 July 2006
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