Re: Eärendil, Isengard etc...

On Fri, 21 Dec 2001 23:42:41 +0100 Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>
writes:
> - Isengard was pronounced /aIzn=gard/, which I always read as
> /isn=gard/(though I do consider /aIzn=gard/ much more aesthetically
> pleasing).  That pronunciation would make sense if the name were in
> one
> of the languages that Tolkien represents as English, e.g. Westron or
> Common Speech... I guess it is, though the book doesn't tell us
> explicitly IIRC.
> -- Christian Thalmann
-

I always pronounced it /1sN=gard/, with an English "short i" sound and an
/s/.  But as usual, i'm the guy who pronounces the E in Numenor as if it
were both stressed and Russian :P


-Stephen (Steg)
 "numyenaurkim uhmzu-elyeb,
  numyenaurkim-a oolu-sfãs
  i uhmzu-peiwang ga'eilosm uhmzú.
  akh báhhihr uzu-ghalub la'umsh,
  i uzu-brodak uhmsh wa'sháíl
  fa'zanlm i fa'pyetikm,
  i fa'^ganmei^charzad."
 (Numenoreans came,
  the Numenoreans who became selfish
  and thought that they were gods.
  but Ocean rose up over them,
  and traded them to the Underworld
  for Murex-shells and pebbles,
  and for glitterings of light.)
     ~ random Rokbeigalmki quote illustrating that they pronounce Númenor
the way i do