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

--- In conlang@y..., Anton Sherwood <bronto@P...> wrote:
> 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.
I don't quite understand why that bothered you.  To me, it makes the
dialog even more convincing.

Elrond, Aragorn and the others pronouncing Isildur correctly enhances
the impression that these people actually *know* and live with the
Elven languages rather than just being actors forced to take these
"annoyingly" pure vowels into their anglophone mouth.  ;-)

Wouldn't you prefer Patrick "/ZA:nlu:k pikA`:d/" Steward to pronounce
his French lines like a Frenchman?  ;-)


-- Christian Thalmann

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