Re: Eärendil, Isengard etc...

I have a dim memory of hearing the Ents' battle chant "To Isengard"
recited, in which it was pronounced /ajs-/.  I tend to say /Iz-/ myself.

There was an early modern antiquarian who reckoned that e.g. Arundel
must be named for the river it's on, whose proper name (which had been
`forgotten') must therefore be Arun.  He managed to get a lot of English
rivers renamed by such reasoning.  It occurs to me that backforming Isen
(the river) from Isengard (the Iron Enclosure) is a joke that might
appeal to JRRT.

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Anton Sherwood  --  http://www.ogre.nu/