Dates

Awoke very approximately 4,300 years before the beginning of the First Age

Race

Pronunciation

que'ndi

Meaning

'Those that speak with voices'¹

Other names

Edhelrim, Eldalië, Eldar,² The Elder Children of Ilúvatar, The Elder Kindred, The Elder People, The Elder Race, Eledhrim, Elven-folk, Elves, Fair Folk, The Firstborn, The People of the Stars, White-fiends

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Quendi

‘Those that speak with voices’

Quendi
(All Elves)

Eldar
Elves of the
Great Journey

Avari
The Unwilling

Vanyar
Light Elves

Noldor
Deep-elves

Teleri
The Third Clan

Falmari
Teleri of Aman

Sindar
Grey-elves of
Beleriand

Nandor
Followers
of Lenwë

Laiquendi
Green-elves of
Ossiriand

Silvan Elves
Others who left
the Great Journey

Some of the more important divisions of the Quendi

'Those that speak with voices'; the name given by the Elves to their own kind while they still dwelt at Cuiviénen.

Notes

1	When the first Elves awoke, they thought themselves to be the only beings in Arda capable of speech, and so took this name for themselves.
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 Great Journey.

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