Re: Lord of the Rings movie
From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
Date: | Sunday, December 16, 2001, 23:23 |
Pavel wrote:
> > Ook...they seem to be pronouncing {y} as /y/. It would make sense if
> > the singers were Finnish...
>
> Yeah, and if they didn't break the words in the middle...
It's positively gut-wrenching. I'm really sorry for the musical
setting, which I did like. And I'm even sorrier for the formerly
beautiful Quenya... (which they'd probably pronounce as /"ku@%nya/.
Blüärg! And with all those glottal stops, it also has a certain
Hawai'ian quality to it.
I couldn't even find an e-mail address on their page to send my angry
ramblings to (probably because the whole page is in Swedish or
something?). Did anybody find an address?
-- Christian Thalmann