Re: CHAT: Best/Worst/Missing Scenes in LotR
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 24, 2001, 8:14 |
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Quoting Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>:
> Oh, I forgot to mention that I liked the pronunciation of the places,
> especially Isildur... much better than what I thought.... ;)
Yeah, I liked that part. They actually managed to make the
/r/s taps or trills in most places! Hearing pure vowels
without Anglophone reduction was a twist that I don't remember
in many scifi/fantasy movies.
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