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Re: LOTR discussion cum *spoilers*
Posted By: Grishny, on host 12.29.132.98
Date: Friday, December 21, 2001, at 08:29:28
In Reply To: Re: LOTR discussion cum *spoilers* posted by Darien on Friday, December 21, 2001, at 06:42:26:

> Oh, and one last thing; Someone who has
seen the movie, please answer one simple
question for me. I can deal with them
pronouncing Sauron as SORE-on instead of
the technically-correct SOUR-on, but *please*
tell me that Celeborn is pronounced correctly
(KELL-a-born) rather than incorrectly
(SELL-a-born). The same rule applies to
Cirdan, Cirith Ungol, and a variety of other
Sindarin names beginning with C.

Scotsman says:

"It looks like Peter took great pains to follow
the notes that Tolkien provided in the
appendices. For example, Pippin's last name
is Took as in rhymes with "Luke", and the
palantir is stressed pa-LANT-ir. As far as the
Dark Lord is concerned, he is called
SOUR-on. I don't remember offhand
Celeborn's name being mentioned, but if they
follow the pains that they took with everything
else, it would be KELL-a-born. Mordor was a
bit strange in that it seemed like they slightly
trilled the first "r" in it, giving it sort of a
Romanian flair to the name. Caradhras is
pronounced KARA-thras, which was strange
since I had always pronounced it ka-RATH-ras
(yes, I do read the appendices and do not
pronounce it Ka-RAD-ras)."

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