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Re: CHAT: Best/Worst/Missing Scenes in LotR

From:Aquamarine Demon <aquamarine_demon@...>
Date:Thursday, December 27, 2001, 0:55
>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.
Yep.. I don't know a lot about Tolkien's languages or anything but when they were speaking them on-screen, it sounded like a real foriegn language. ;)
>Apart from the fact that Isildur isn't a place name, yes, I was very pleasantly >surprised by that as >well. =)
Yeah, yeah... I forgot, ok? Too many names to remember. ;)
>Gotta love the way the non-humans all had their own accent of Common Speech... >gurgling R's >for the Dwarves, clear and deliberate speech for Elves, those >fun hobbit accents... "Isildur" >pronounced by Elrond or Aragorn sounded >especially cool. > >-- Christian Thalmann
Yeah... that was neat. :) The Aquamarine Demon Gesám ayi mozuká. Gesám dohíng mozuká. Gesám adohíng mozuká! --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online at Yahoo! Greetings.