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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