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

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 25, 2001, 22:46
And Rosta wrote:
> But I did very much get the impression that the actors were carefully > coached -- overcareful in some ways. Examples that caught my notice > have fled my memory, but I noticed that when speaking English/Westron > they used [i] in certain Elvish names which would more naturally have > been said with [I] in English speech.
Isildur being perhaps the most obvious.
> This then gave the effect of the > names being pronounced as if in italics -- as foreign forms rather than > as names well-integrated into common speech. -- An error, IMO.
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