| From: | John Leland <leland@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 3, 2003, 17:31 |
Personally, I grew up pronouncing the Hobbitish Took like the English verb, rhyming with book, but later on I found out that Tolkien apparently intended it to be pronounced like spook--IIRC he sometimes wrote it tuk with a circumflex over the u, which was his way of signalling that sound. John Leland
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