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'''Ilkorin''' literally means in [[Quenya]],(plural ''Ilkorindi'') is a [[Quenya]] word, literally meaning "not of Kôr".   The '''Ilkorins'''di were a [[Elf (Middle-earth)|group of Elves]] from [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s [[fictional universe]]. They first appear in ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]''. It was then a name with a broad meaning for all the Elves who "never saw the light of Kôr" and also for their many tongues. Kôr was the Quenya name for a hill and the city built on it, near the shores of the Bay of Faery. ''Ilkorins'' is an anglicized term. These Elfes were called ''Ilkorindi'' in grammaticaly correct Quenya.

Later, in the late 1920's, Tolkien decides that Ilkorin should be the name given to only some ofapplied the word only to those Elves who did not reach Kôr, those(later called [[Sindar]]) who lived in [[Beleriand]] and were ruled by King Thingol:

"In the course of ages the tongues and dialects of Beleriand became altogether estranged from those of other Eldar in [[Valinor]], through the learned in such lore may perceive that they were anciently sprung from Telerian. These were the '''Ilkorin''' speeches of Beleriand."<ref>J.R.R. Tolkien, "The [[Lhammas]]", ''The Lost Road'', p. 175.</ref>

At that time Tolkien decided that tThese Ilkorin Elves spoke three dialects: 
*the speech of the Elves of the Kingdom of Doriath, ''Doriathrin'';
*the speech of the Elves from the havens of Brithombar and Eglorest, ''Falassian'';
*the speech of the nomadic Elves living in Beleriand.

Later on (in the early 1940's) Tolkien conceived the name ''Lemberin'' for that language, and said about ''Ilkorin'' that it "is not rightly a linguistic name, and included the ''Pereldar'', and all who began the march, but did not come to Kór".<ref>J.R.R. Tolkien, "Tengwesta Qenderinwa 1", ''Parma Eldalamberon'' 18, p. 26.</ref>

So Lemberin became the name for the tongue of the [[Teleri]]n Elves that remained in Beleriand. Before the coming of the [[Noldor]] it was spoken far and wide in Beleriand (save in [[Ossiriand]]) and all the names of places, of rivers, woods, fields, plains, hills and mountains were given in this tongue.

==References==
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== See also ==
* [[Calendar of Imladris]]
* [[Languages of Middle-earth]]
* [[Quenya]]⏎
* [[Middle-earth]]

[[Category:Middle-earth languages]]

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