=?iso-8859-1?Q?E=E4rendil?=, Isengard etc...

Christian Thalmann scripsit:

> - Isengard was pronounced /aIzn=gard/, which I always read as
> /isn=gard/(though I do consider /aIzn=gard/ much more aesthetically
> pleasing).  That pronunciation would make sense if the name were in one
> of the languages that Tolkien represents as English, e.g. Westron or
> Common Speech... I guess it is, though the book doesn't tell us
> explicitly IIRC.
It is.  Isen = iron, same as German Eisen, so "iron-yard".

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